Ferrari Tires

[Kitdy]

I was just wondering what tires the factory offered on Ferraris of yore up until now.

Have they stuck with one company or changed?

What tires did their old F1 and sportscar racers use?

[Ferrer]

IIRC correctly in TG they said Pirellis for the 360 CS, Bridgestones for the F430. Other than that I don't know.

[Kitdy]

Originally Posted by Ferrer

IIRC correctly in TG they said Pirellis for the 360 CS, Bridgestones for the F430. Other than that I don't know.

Maybe they are using Bridgestones on all their cars now due to the F1 connection?

Do you know what the 250s and Superamericas and the like ran on?

Nice flag by the way!

[RacingManiac]

depends on models I think. I think really high end cars(read, Enzo-level, FXX and the likes) uses bespoke Bridgestone.....

[dydzi]

for the first twenty years - Michelin and Pirellis. during 50's, luxurious cars had Pirellis Cinturato, in seventies and eighties it was almost exclusively michelin - some awkward names like XWX or whatever. recently it was pirelli, mostly thanks to pirelli p zero rosso. you need to know that agreements in F1 tire supplies often include road cars. thus it's bridgestone now, however they're much worse than pirellis.

if you'd be wondering who supplied Ferrari in carburettors, it was always Italian Weber. as to lights - for the beginnings it was Marchan, now it's Valeo. leather carpenting - earlier it was all organised by scaglietti, now it's poltona frau. disc brakes - starting from Dunlop to brembo now. Ferrari is the only company in the world to have ceramic brakes in standard for all the models (since 2008). paint was always glasurit or PPG. dampers were houdailles in earlier 250s, but since GTE they opted for Koni and i think they stick to them hitherto. chassis was constructed by colombo at very beginning (not the same who made the engine). luxurious 250s and superamericas had fichtel&sachs clutches.

that's all i remember from my head

[NicFromLA]

Originally Posted by dydzi

for the first twenty years - Michelin and Pirellis. during 50's, luxurious cars had Pirellis Cinturato, in seventies and eighties it was almost exclusively michelin - some awkward names like XWX or whatever. recently it was pirelli, mostly thanks to pirelli p zero rosso. you need to know that agreements in F1 tire supplies often include road cars. thus it's bridgestone now, however they're much worse than pirellis.

if you'd be wondering who supplied Ferrari in carburettors, it was always Italian Weber. as to lights - for the beginnings it was Marchan, now it's Valeo. leather carpenting - earlier it was all organised by scaglietti, now it's poltona frau. disc brakes - starting from Dunlop to brembo now. Ferrari is the only company in the world to have ceramic brakes in standard for all the models (since 2008). paint was always glasurit or PPG. dampers were houdailles in earlier 250s, but since GTE they opted for Koni and i think they stick to them hitherto. chassis was constructed by colombo at very beginning (not the same who made the engine). luxurious 250s and superamericas had fichtel&sachs clutches.

that's all i remember from my head

In the early years Michelin and Pirelli were big, as was Englebert. Two things to keep in mind: First off if a customer requested a certain kind of ire they usually got it, second Ferrari experimented a lot, so if a bunch of tires from a particular brand were laying around they'd use them. Weber carbs were the norm, but cars did leave the factory with Solex and Zenith. For the PF cars leather and carpet with done at PF, Scaglietti would subcontract out. The leather was almost always Connoly, but it was not unheard of for customers to special order Bridge of Weir.

The thing to remember was that Ferrari (both the company and the man) were always experimenting; very often they'd buy a whole batch of a certain part from a company, thrown them on a batch of cars and see what happened. If the performance increased and the customers were happy they'd order more, if the customers complained they ordered from someone else or went back to their old supplier. They were a small company at the time and it was important for them to buy in bulk and use what they had in stock.

[Kitdy]

Thanks for the info guys. I'm glad you threw in that other stuff as well, it never knew a lot of that.

[henk4]

I thought the thread was:

Ferrari makes you tired, until I saw it was about tyres

[werty]

I thought it was a new brand...like Ferrari decided to start making there own tires and I was like "sweet"

[Kitdy]

Originally Posted by henk4

I thought the thread was:

Ferrari makes you tired, until I saw it was about tyres

Hah.

I suppose the English that gets taught in The Netherlands is the British variant?

Us Canadians have sorta a compromise of American and British English.

[henk4]

Originally Posted by Kitdy

Hah.

I suppose the English that gets taught in The Netherlands is the British variant?

Us Canadians have sorta a compromise of American and British English.

The English that we use is the English variant.....

[kingofthering]

I thought it was some idiot who put Ferrari decals on his tires.

[Kitdy]

Originally Posted by henk4

The English that we use is the English variant.....

We've just enhanced the language by speaking it properly and saying and spelling aluminum properly.

[henk4]

Originally Posted by Kitdy

We've just enhanced the language by speaking it properly and saying and spelling aluminum properly.

there you go, the proper road is Bauxite-Alumina-Aluminium, where alumina is an intermediate product, resulting from the first processing of the bauxite ore.

[Kitdy]

Originally Posted by henk4

there you go, the proper road is Bauxite-Alumina-Aluminium, where alumina is an intermediate product, resulting from the first processing of the bauxite ore.

For the more hardcore-than-thou approach, see above.