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Originally Posted by sparoz
Yeah, I drove 180km yesterday to the track and the temperature didn't raise much on the road, so no chance it will heat cycle out.
I should have taken temperatures on the tyres after the session, but too distracted by the deflated tyre. So, if it doesn't go over say 40 degree, it might not be a problem. It would be interesting to see how I go with one new tyre, but the others only have five hot laps on them.
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It would be interesting to hear from a tire engineer on what change over temperature you need to achieve to officially put a heat cycle on a tire.
It isn't uncommon for me to see surface temps of around ~130F on the tire (~54C). And I'm just using an IR gun...the internal temperatures if taken with a pyrometer I bet they will be even higher.
Make sure you get the mold release and scrub the tire in. It seems like you've done that already since your drive...but I would suspect just given the fresh tread that the one tire may take a bit longer to get to temp