It has been spoken these last weeks in the world of the F1, radial the Michelin and its width much. Here we are going to them to explain, that is what this making Michelin, if he is legal or illegal and that it reflects on the matter.

The yield of Michelin has been clearly superior to the one of its Japanese rival Bridgestone

“The bewitching” engineers of the French mark have not found more than a “thing that not this written in the regulation, but not this written; that he is legal by the regulation, but would not have to be it…” or simpler, an orifice in the regulation TRUSTS in Formula 1 since so many wizards in history have done. Of the 53 years of Formula 1 we can count many histories of peculiarities at the time, new features, that in the end became successes or were eradicated completely of the category. We can to speak of John Cooper when in 1958 it decided to change the place of the motor, that in that then ones was front to buttock, in search of greater traction. Then there was not much regulation that we only say… were ***reflxed mng of him, but obtained the titles of 1959 and 1960 as constructor with his 45 Cooper back motor and until today is used his configuration.

The controversial French tires were replaced by the previous design of the mark

We can also speak of Brabham Jack, that in 1968 was first in mounting ailerons, but ailerons brake and moving bodies, that stuck the car to the ground, and with a simple movement of the pilot became flat or absolutely curved, according to she would be straight or curved. Nobody never had thought about ailerons, reason why it was not in the regulation, ENTRUSTS nevertheless it did not let it run more than 8 races with that car. The ailerons replaced brake, by movable ailerons.

The equipment Williams BMW managed to win to the cars of Maranello in several occasions

Also we can speak of another crazy idea of the Brabham equipment: the windy vacuum cleaner, that seemed plus a ventilator that a car of Formula 1. Another orifice of the regulation, that the engineers have known to find after hours and hours of reading, and one night of brilliance, and finishes being prohibited by TRUSTS.
This is only for explaining that this has been always made, and will be continued doing while competition exists.
But we enter the subject of Michelin, after this brief historical review.
Somebody has said that the tires must have their width. Obvious. The minimum is 30 cm and the maximum is 35 cm. The statute in which they are says that the tires must be moderate before the race, when they do not have use.

In Monaco of 2003, Michelin made make debut its new tire

Perfect. All have followed that norm from the year in which it was placed. But to anybody it had been happened to him that the tire could measure any number at the end of the race. A pneumatic width, of more than 40 cm could have much traction and an incredible capacity of braking.
Michelin did, it. It read and it reread the norm. It could. They proved two years, and in Monaco of the 2003, they removed for the first time to the star from the company to the track with the equipment Williams.
The result, was superb. The tires released with 34.5 cm but nobody worried to measure them at the end of the race, because to anybody it interests squashed how finished the tire to him by the faults of the track, pinchazos or by the heat. They had measured if it, they had been surprised much…
Michelin, had obtained, secretly still for the press, that the tire given 5 or 6 returns to a temperature X, a “layer” by thus calling it, would be broken and the tire would be been high and mighty periodically until reaching a optimum measurement. It would never stop it to nobody.

Engineers of Bridgestone rest on his devaluated products

Except for somebody. The mistrust of Ross Brawn that in a training decided to measure incredible the Michelin which they squashed at any moment to the Bridgestone de Ferrari. The game finished. Found orifice, ENTRUSTS and it did not take to fill up its regulation once again and to be decided to also measure the tires after race, and to put a number limit. Michelin had to return to its old tire, being forgotten the revolutionary. But this has not even finished. There will be more witchcrafts of the engineers.
Perhaps it is not in tires. It can be in any thing…