Featured Within the April 2024 difficulty of Roadracing World:
If I didn’t know higher, I’d assume it was magic. We’re watching a Michelin Moto GP rear slick being made and it’s a factor of marvel.
The tire is being created from nothing by Michelin’s C3M course of, which is mainly an enormous 3D printer, measuring about 4 meters sq. and standing a number of meters tall. The tire is constructed on a spinning, heated metal mildew, one ingredient after the opposite.
Pc-controlled robotic arms whizz this fashion and that, making use of the bottom rubber through a multi-head nozzle; knitting in steel cords, each the belts across the tire’s bead and the cords crisscrossed throughout the tire; then knitting in textile cords; then making use of the rubber compound that does the work, layer by layer. Every part occurs at excessive velocity, a blur earlier than our eyes…
“MotoGP Evaluation: Conjuring Magic Tires,” by Mat Oxley
Michelin has been MotoGP’s unique tire provider for nearly a decade now. We get a uncommon peek inside the corporate’s MotoGP tire lab and see how its racing tires are made—by an enormous 3D printer! It’s all within the newest difficulty of Roadracing World!
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