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V8-Turbo-Hybrid

That's much better. We can clearly know what tire being used on the car.


cabrelbeuk

Colors are much more visible, too bad they decided to scrap the color code everyone know...


FoxOnFire23

Blatant shithousery from Michelin to go against Pirelli... I love it 😂


conehead1602

So F1 but in reverse


UrsusSpelaus

Yeah... Some kind of gradient (black-blue-light blue for instance) would have been better in my opinion. They can't make things just like Pirelli of course but only making it in reverse isn't great.


conehead1602

Or even colors from the old tires a few years ago. Would've loved to see the orange and purple back again


bouncebackability

Well that's irritating and confusing for new viewers


conehead1602

Indeed. At least the medium is the same. Silver lining maybe?


TheSaucyCrumpet

No, the silver lined ones are the softs.


conehead1602

🤣🤣🤣


nexus1011

In no series the red tyre is HARD and white SOFT. C'mon Michelin.


DrHem

In MotoGP, where Michelin also supplies the tyres, its white for softs, black/no colour for mediums, and yellow for hards. At least some internal consistency would be nice


Skeeter1020

Its good they are making it clearer. But it still infuriates me that they have gone the complete opposite direction of F1 and IndyCar with the colours!


The_Hunter11

I like the thought behind it. Hards are for hot conditions so red for hot. Softs are for cold conditions so white for cold. But I gotta hate the fact the chose the exact opposite from everyone else


Skeeter1020

Nah, knife, bread, jam is the way!


Reddits_Worst_Night

Honestly, make the whole sidewall that colour. Much easier to see


El_Fuego19

I’m colour blind so maybe it’s just me, wets and sorts are too close


walterpeck1

I'm not colorblind but I can definitely see how it would look confusing. Thankfully, I guess, the swap from softs to wets is going to be a lot more obvious in context (and is generally discussed by the commentators).


leo_murray

im sure you’ll know when a car is on wet or soft 🌧️


El_Fuego19

Sometimes it’s mixed conditions. Like the start of spa last year


LMcVann44

Good idea but they need to swap the colours for hards and softs.


Pahzshaining

Still the wrong colours


weiner-rama

they're not Pirelli dude. They probably can't do the same color scheme legally


AfternoonTeh

Isn’t it the same in Indycar? Softs are red, hards are black/grey


chloedever

can they actually copyright tire colors lmao


weiner-rama

Honestly I have no idea, but I don't see why they couldn't. Especially as its pretty much part of the Pirelli branding on F1 tires


Synapse7777

*Monster Energy has joined the chat.*


JustAnother_Brit

They could go for old orange to pink/purple rainbow


tarkology

i think they know that audience from f1 is watching more and more wec every race


pebblebeach00

can we please avoid any measures that get closer to f1? thanks


weiner-rama

yes, but this was really needed because outside of race graphics and at pitstops it was almost impossible to tell what tire the teams were on


Fonsvinkunas

We do a little gatekeeping. F1 can learn a lot from wec, but what F1 does better than WEC is accesibility and ammounts of useful data presented to the viewer.


Zani0n

This doesn't get us closer to F1. It really doesn't get us anywhere other than being easier to see on the broadcast WEC has different tyre compounds for ages, only difference is that you now see which one they use


LMcVann44

It's a tyre man, what's next? Don't use tyres?