Tire Wear Quotes

Hungary we know it's a difficult track, it's one of the most physical tracks.

When I'm doing longer runs I can be very consistent on the lap times because I know what the car is doing all the time.

If there are differences in the race pace it is normally because the tyre is overheating on my side.

To be honest, once you've driven around for about five, 10 laps, you don't notice a difference.

The main factors in terms of how tiring a season can be are governed by the number of races and the length of time between the first and the last.

When I am driving my car down the street, I try not to go down the potholes.

I had to stop driving my car for a while... the tires got dizzy.

If anything on the car is going to blow up or fall off, you usually see it happen in the 600. But it's also survival for the drivers because it's such a long race and it's usually hot at Charlotte. It's hard for drivers to feel good for the whole 400 laps.

If you sign someone with the speed but whose time is over, they will set up the car differently and badly. You are 80 percent of the time going through corners, and you set up the car differently compared to someone who comes and wants to go flat out.

As soon as you go off the racing line you go through all the dust and then have to spend time cleaning up your tires.

I don't like to go over curbs, because I don't want to be hard on the car.

Firstly the cars aren't too complicated. They have no traction control, for example, which means you can spin if you try too hard and damage your tires if you're not careful with your driving style.

The Pirellis you can push for a couple of laps and then you've got to start saving. It's not easy.

You've got to distribute the tyre life over the stint, I think that's the main limiting factor, more than car balance.

Back then the cars had a trap door that we could pull open with a chain to check our tire wear.

Tires were so bald on the truck that the air was showin' through, and I had to drive fifty miles an hour all the way out there, because the vibration was so bad.

I guess everybody saw it. It's a deal where I'd been racing cars a long time and I knew going around the track the fender was on the tire hard.

It's what counts, isn't it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it's nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It's a much bigger problem.

Tyre management has always been part of the qualifying strategy and the race itself. I don't know about others; I just know that I always push as much as I can to obtain the best result possible.

The key is trying to go quick without killing your tyres.