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Message: <blockquote data-quote="M5POWER" data-source="post: 465442" data-attributes="member: 20112">Obviously... Why? Because of the power difference between our road cars and an F1 cars are hugely massively different!Obviously F1 teams will change to wet tyres depends on the dampness and the condition of the track. But as I said, the height and the weight of our cars really affect the chance for our cars to experience aquaplaning but that by no means we can escape from it. Let's just put it this way, you can only experience aquaplaning when you drive fast on a wet road or hitting a standing water. You guys need to remember our road car tyres are no match in performance compared to an F1 tyre because the rubber compund is different than ours... Try to put on our road car tyre on an F1 car, that F1 car will spins out of control and eventually worn the tyres out after the first lap. Honestly, comparing an F1 car to our road car is just ridiculous because of the cars different characteristic. F1 cars are were not designed to always race in wet condition but every cars on the road can experience aquaplaning, just that the chance to have it in our car is much less than in an F1 car.You proved my point... The wider tyre cannot throw out as many water when you are driving fast and when that happens, the watter gets collected on the picture I've shown above and it will lift the car up causing aquaplaning. That no means our road tyres are safe for you to drive fast, its still a NO but again as I said earlier ride height and weight really plays some part. The technology, research and blablabla of an F1 tyre compared to our road tyre is speechless. Price tag will tell you that.Owkey for those who wants to understand more of aquaplaning, I stumble upon one in the net:My advice, DO NOT drive fast or more than 120kmh on wet roads... They really can bite you!</blockquote>

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