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Originally Posted by scheides
Ok I guess a tire pyrometer needs to penetrate the rubber but I think this little thing is still cool as hell!
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I think this would be just as effective, if not even more effective, so long as there's a way to secure and monitor it while the car is moving. A pyrometer can only be used when the car is stopped and by that point you've probably had a decent amount of time for everything to cool down, so you're not getting absolute temperature readings anyway.
Even so, I think the main benefit of a pyrometer is measuring the temperature across the whole tire which, again, is apt to change with even a little cooling down. Having something which can monitor the temperature distribution while in motion (specifically, in a turn) can give a much better picture of adjustments needed to make the tires happy.
This has a ton of qualifiers, being that it's an F1 car and therefore has a ton of downforce and full slicks which are open to the air, but the YouTube video linked below helps illustrate my point. You can see that the temperature generated from a turn goes away really quickly, and you can see that the even distribution of heat in the corners indicates the tires are happy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHC_nZzRBdk
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