Scraping a racing tire with fire

Scraping all that shit off might just take a good year🤣

To anyone wondering, they're just scraping off all the marbles and tar picked up from the track to expose these holes which they then use the depth measurement on a caliper to measure the wear of the tire

Preferrably not done during a pit stop

This could be automated so easily with a machine. A long blade that gets hot and a motor that spins the tire.

Please add DONT DO THiS AT HOME note. I have a feeling some people may get some brilliant ideas 🤣👽

On a related note... Anyone ever notice you need to fill your tires much less often the more you use them? The more the car just stands parked, the sooner you have to inflate the tires again. Just an interesting observation...

It's done after the race/quali for officials inspection. Scraping is in hands of team crews to avoid allegations against race governing bodies In F1 for example, they scrape strip just few inches wide, till tire surface is visible Also: tire suppliers often run their tests later

They scrap the rubber marbles and build up off to see how much tire wear they have to determine how to set up the next set going on the racecar.

“Hey Mark, the pit times keep increasing, do you know anything about that?”