Slick Tyres and Race Driving

[Gail Bickford]

Sporting tyres or slick tyres, first developed by M&H Tires in the 1950s, are tyres that have no stand and that are practically 'slick' or completely easy throughout so that it allows for higher speed on your way (or track). We have tread on our lines and tyres to be able to sustain adherence to the trail when smooth, wet, or when driving corners and circular bends.

A advanced tyre enables that adherence to be decreased considerably and for the car to go faster. That's as the grooved tyre is not touching the trail surface around the clever tyre and therefore the latter increase traction significantly and thus travel faster. They're only utilized in race driving currently as what matters there's speed and winning the race. On the highways, what matters today is protection. Contest individuals often alter their tyres a whole lot throughout races for two reasons.

One, simply because they degrade a lot more rapidly than grooved tyres with stand since the area is always in contact with the tyre. Often the battle driver could find yourself changing tyres on multiple occasion because the tyre has been entirely worn-out. Secondly because the weather conditions have an excellent effect on how the tyre truly adheres to the trail. Rushing tyres usually do not adhere to the surface of the road well in wet conditions and suffer from aquaplaning, settles on the surface of the road and when water interferes with adherence. Our grooved tyres are manufactured so that they eliminate that water and as we drive down the street we could adhere.

In Formula One racing slick tyres were abandoned for a decade between 2008 and 1998, but they were cut back in for the 2009 Formula One season, as road legal race tyres.