Summary
A typical race tire has a tread face as thick as two credit cards, and requires unique processing techniques. The techniques developed for racing tires -- when applied to sturdier materials -- result in less distortion, and higher quality and consistency. Technologies like long-link carbon and smoother bead design have made the move from racing to road, with the former giving greater heat resistance, longer tire life, and retaining wet weather traction as the tire wears. The latter, a seamless rounded bead, reduces vibration. What does not make the transfer -- at least not in the same form -- is the simulation technology used to create a new race tire.
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The Rubber Meets the Road
Although it might seem that racing tires are in a class of their own: "It is much more difficult to design a street tire for the simple reason that the street tire has to...
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