If i turned of the traction control in my car, and warmed my tires up like they do in F1, would i get the same benefits of having good heat in the tires before i go out driving.
no your road tires and f1 racing tires are two totally different rubber compounds, then their is the performance aspect, an f1 car wont need the heat in the tires to follow the safety car, and neither would you to drive around town, its only when operating on the threshold that it matters
My friends and i used to do that for fun. It does not do anything. F1 cars need to keep their tyres at a certain temperature or they run the risk of shredding them losing traction. A normal road car with normal wheels does not really need to warm its tyres that much since they don't go as fast as f1 cars.
Ofcourse a cold tyre offers less grip than a hot tyre. I don't know how much you could heat up your tyres by switching off the traction control. Anyway its not advisable because you will simply waste your tyres. In F1 they use the tyres for hardly 100 km but you have to use them for couple of thousands, and whatever driving we do, i'm sure does not require that kind of warming up. We are not on the circuit so why waste?
