If we understand, by 'tire temperature' the mean temperature of the whole tire, the answer is that it gets cooler after takeoff. It will cool faster in a non-retracted position, exposed to the airstream, but will cool anyway, also retracted into a closed well (if at a slower pace...).
But if we understand by 'tire temperature' that of the external layers of the track, the answer is that those external layers, initially colder because 'air cooled', will heat up once the tire is inside the well, as the (uncooled) inner layers of the tire will be hotter and will heat up the now uncooled outer layers by conduction, until thermal equilibrium is reached...
Last edited by XXXavier; 24th July 2013 at 12:14.