Working closely with Formula E’s teams is an important component of Hankook’s race week operation, and Thomas Baltes is responsible for this aspect of the job on-track. Managing this over a race distance will be a real challenge for a driver.” ‘Feedback, support learning and development’ “There’s always a trade-off between push laps and energy saving laps and pushing the tyre hard and managing temperatures to keep it in the optimal window for its best performance. The major challenges for a driver will be managing the tread and compound temperature. India was the highest we’ll likely see, and that throws up a lot of challenges from our perspective and from a driver and race engineers point of view. “That range is where the tyre works at its best and it’s always interesting from an engineering perspective to see how much the performance relies on track temperature. “The optimal window for the tyre is designed to take in between 10 and 50 degrees and we have reinforced units in the mixes and blends to achieve a constant performance level throughout that window and across a variety of different temperature windows. ABB FIA Formula E World Championship February 14, 2023 Presenting Grip Gallery, from our first ever race in India, brought to you by #HyderabadEPrix /rc3qVyvf2q “Those blends are designed to cover off the varieties of conditions the tyres will face on-track in Formula E, and in India – that includes the high temperatures in-fact the highest of the season and potentially in Formula E history.ĭaring overtakes and high-speed chases on the streets of Hyderabad 🇮🇳 “We have used different blends of polymers in the construction of the tyre compound rubber,” says Choi. Race Tyre Development Engineer Mike Choi explains just how he and his team have worked to get the most out of what is already an extremely specialist tyre, which is required to work across all conditions dry, wet, hot and cold temperatures and across a variety of surfaces - all at racing speeds. Coping with the heat and staying ‘in the window’ “The drivers are learning a lot about the new Formula E tyre in every race: after heavy rain at the test in Valencia and cool temperatures in the Saudi Arabian desert, the teams this time gained valuable experience of running the Hankook iON Race in extreme heat,” added Baltes. “The tyre also overcame the high track temperatures of over 50 degrees without any problems. Particularly at the end of the long, high-speed straights, the Hankook iON Race really had to work hard to provide the drivers with the necessary grip,” explained Thomas Baltes, Hankook Formula E Race Engineer. “There was a lot of dirt and dust on the track, which formed a very slippery surface.
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