Vorshlag Review of the BFGoodrich "Rival", their new 200 Treadwear Tire
As many of you have read already, there was a new tire designed and released in January 2013, adding another member to the 140-200 Treadwear Tire Wars. This tire joins many other popular tires in the 140-200 treadwear "Extreme Summer" tire category. The Rival was designed primarily as a dry weather tire, as noted by the large and blocky tread blocks, with three rows of blocks up to 265mm widths and four rows of blocks for widths above that. The unique features of this tire include exceptionally long wear, a large breadth of section widths ranging from 205/50/15 up to 335/30/18, and prices that are extremely competitive with today's 140-200 treadwear tires. Being 200 UTQG rated, it is legal for the largest number of competitive events as well.
The new BFGoodrich Rival tire model was a well kept secret. When I received an invitation (as "an opinion maker"??) to go to the launch and testing of this tire, the name of this new model was a complete surprise to me. I had heard about the upcoming Dunlop Direzza ZII and even whispers about the Bridgestone RE-11A, but this Rival was an unexpected surprise. They were flying 70-100 people known in the autocross and road race "street tire" circles, media types, and some of their dealers, out to New Orleans on January 21st-23rd for the press release, technical talks, and a lot of test driving on this tire and several key competitors. This included direct autocross and road course testing at the new NOLA Motorsports Park. Who was I to argue? After returning from the first 2013 NASA Time Trial event at MSR-Houston on Sunday, I hopped on a plane early Tuesday morning and flew into New Orleans...
Freebies, Swag and Buying Opinions?
Before we get started, I've been asked by several people, "did they buy a favorable review with this event?" So sure, this BFG launch event cost a chunk of change to put on, as they paid to rent the track, bring over a dozen cars here to drive (plus used half a dozen FR500S race cars that the track already had on hand from its rental fleet), and paid for all sorts of food and drink to the "opinion makers" they invited. They also paid to fly dozens of us to New Orleans, paid for hotel rooms in the Ritz Carlton, gave us some hats/jackets/swag, and let us romp around a road course and autocross courses in their cars, all day, for free. Will this "buy" the opinions from all of the people that were invited to come??
Vorshlag picture gallery from this event: http://vorshlag.smugmug.com/Racing-E...G-NOLA-012312/
No. Not everyone, and the opinions were all very unanimous, from what I've heard first-hand and read online. Sure, while posh treatment might temper what some might say, I don't think it affects everyone, and least of all me. I've received some nice treatment from several tire companies over the years, with invites to arrive-and-drive events from Hankook, Yokohama and many others, free trips from Bridgestone, and free tires from Yokohama, Bridgestone, and Kumho. I won't let a bag of swag, comped tires, or a free lunch change my opinions or the testing I've performed here at Vorshlag or elsewhere, though. Even if a tire is free, I will say my honest opinion of it. If that tire is fast, I am going to buy it and recommend it. If we put a part on our cars and it sucks I'll point it out, so others don't make the same mistakes I have (of which there are plenty). People like Andy Hollis were there, too, and I know for a fact he doesn't give a fig about sponsorship or freebies - he just wants to WIN. I've seen him run two different brands of tires on opposite ends of the same car, to suit his needs. So there will be some honest opinions about this tire out there, with some first-hand impressions that you can really trust.
I have a been to many tire company sponsored arrive-and-drive events, including Yokohama (left) and Hankook (right).
Who Is This Guy?
If you know who Terry Fair is, and have followed any of my build threads, then the next few paragraphs are not worth reading (rehash). Please skip down to The BFG Rival Launch Event, bolded below.
What is an opinion if you don't know who is giving it, or know their racing/testing/engineering background? I will talk for just a minute about my background with street tires and competition events. If my Facebook pictures from the BFG Rival event are an indicator, this written review could end up just about anywhere. So let's see... I started autocrossing in 1987 and ran street and R-compound tires throughout college. Being a starving engineering student I tended to stick with street compound tires, as these provided the best bang for the buck... kind of like how autocross was more affordable than open lapping or wheel-to-wheel club racing. Since Texas A&M Univ. is located right next to a road course (Texas World Speedway), I was able to enter a number of PCA HPDE events, racing around the road course there through college, and I corner-worked many of their events just to get free track time. I even worked out at the track for a while, testing cars on track for some oil additive companies. We also set-up several 1.4+ mile road courses and called them autocrosses out at the Riverside Annex, in our autocross club (TAMSCC).
Note: All of my competition during that period were in higher powered RWD cars, with a few exceptions. I never did go for light, FWD cars, so my opinions and experience regarding tire use on those cars are limited. Even in college we "tested tires", pooling our meager resources and swapping cars at practice autocross events, where we each often took 50-75+ timed autocross runs in a given day. We learned quickly which tires were fast and which were hype. Two other students in TAMSCC and I also created a sort of unlimited, "street tire only" class in 1991 that we called Super Street Modified. We kept it to 275mm and smaller widths and 200+ treadwear, and this was quickly the largest class at our monthly auto-x events. College students and drivers from Houston and Dallas and Austin alike flocked to this class, where the tire widths and compounds kept spending and horsepower in check. Think of a mash-up of SCCA Street Mod blended with the tires similar to Street Touring. We would regularly have 25+ entrants in this class, and we pushed the limits of 200 treadwear tires long before the SCCA created their Street Touring classes around 2003, and before their Street Mod category existed.
Left: Racing in STU at a ProSolo in 2006 on Yokohama AD07s. Right: Solo Nats in 2007 on Bridgestone RE-01Rs.
After leaving college with years of racing in various autocross classes and track events on R-compound tires, I came into the Street Touring autocross classes in 2004. I started co-driving a friend's 1997 BMW M3 and we raced this car together from 2004-2007, netting some good trophies at Nationals and my wife taking two wins in STU-L in the car. Then we jumped around from STS, STX, and STU in various cars up through 2011 - mostly 2700-3400 pound RWD and AWD cars, almost always with more than 300 whp. Noting the popularity of "racing on your street tires", we developed dozens of Vorshlag and AST suspension parts on these chassis, usually racing on street compound tires ranging from 140-200 treadwear. During this period I raced and tested on Falken, Dunlop, Hankook, Yokohama, Bridgestone, Toyo, Pirelli, and Goodyear brand tires, often on more than one model from those brands. And to be completely transparent, my wife and/or I were sponsored drivers for both Yokohama and Bridgestone at various times.
Racing in two LeMons Endurance events once again brought me back to 200 treadwear Dunlop Z1s (left) and Falkens (right).
In 2011, two different 24 hours de LeMons teams asked me to co-drive in their cars, which I did and had a LOT of fun. This is an endurance wheel to wheel road racing series made for "$500" cars, similar in many ways to the ChumpCar series. These two endurance series both require 200 treadwear tires, so I was running on the Dunlop and Falken tires that the two teams chose. Then in 2012 I ran a couple of Optima Challenge qualifier events, where I was once again on 200 treadwear tires that I had to buy, as that is the limit in that series.
Left: 7 of the 9 events BFG sponsors are ones that we have entered. Right: Optima Challenge's autocross+track+speed-stop format is a favorite.
The Optima series' 200 TW requirement was a difficult change, as I had been free to choose from 140-180 TW tires for years while running with SCCA in Street Touring - but we made a compromise and found a tire that we thought might be suitable for the wider sizes we needed on a heavy, 430 whp car. Unfortunately the 295mm Nitto NT-05 we chose was mostly a dud, but we still won the autocross portion at a Optima event and placed 3rd in the road course, so it wasn't a total loss. After having spoken about the downsides of this tire many times, I vowed to come back and run more of these Qualifiers in 2013 on better rubber! So I've been really watching the 200+ treadwear category with interest since early 2012, as this is the minimum treadwear number in Goodguys, ChumpCar, LeMons, ASCS, and Optima OUSCI events, and these tires could be used in any class that required 140 or higher treadwear.
I have already test driven and/or competed on all of these tire brands in 2013, plus some more
I also ran several NASA events in 2010-11 on street compound tires, to keep the points down enough to be able to stay in the TTB class, before ditching that idea and jumping into TTS (now in TT3). So that's my brief history with competition events on "street tires". I guess you could say that I was racing on 140-200 treadwear tires before it was en vogue? And I've been doing it on what many consider to be the heavier end of the autocross spectrum (2700-3500 lbs), with a lot of Time Trial and endurance W2W road course experience on these tires as well. Not the typical FWD Honda Street Tourer, or the typical R-compound-only autocrosser background, so if your tire uses sound more like mine, then maybe my review of the BFG Rival or any other tire I've tested/raced on will resonate more than others?
I don't know if that matters or not, but I just wanted to put that out there. I tend to distrust most of what I read on the internets, and I rarely trust the opinions and "reviews" about racing related products when I know nothing about the reviewer.
The BFG Rival Launch Event
So I arrive at the New Orleans airport to find a driver and town car waiting to whisk me to the Ritz Carlton hotel down in the French Quarter. Yep, they sprung for some fancy digs. Warning lights were sounding in my head and I thought "Man, this tire must really need some help". I was the first to arrive that day at registration and I got a key to my room and a bag full of BFG swag then headed up to my suite. Damn nice digs. In my room, I found a "top secret" engineering document that was "accidentally" left there. Pretty cute, but I took pics of each page and posted them on Facebook. You can see them starting here.
Click here to see 10 pages from this "confidential report".
There was a group already out at the track testing that day and I had to wait until Wednesday to get my hands on the cars and tires offered up to the second half of the tester group. With 7 hours to kill before drinks and dinner at 6 pm that night, I went out to the French Quarter and made a day of tourist attractions, excellent food and wicked drinks. At 6 pm I came out to the courtyard where they had an open bar, and saw friends who had arrived and introduced myself to many others in attendance. I met folks from Michelin/BFG (the latter company being owned by the former, so there is some crossover) and got to meet famous people I had only seen on TV, like the owners of Detroit Speed, Inc, Kyle & Stacy Tucker.
Left: DSI co-owner and Optima competitor Stacy Tucker Right: Incredible meal at Arnaud's.
Then the group meandered down the French Quarter to Arnaud's restaurant, which was closed for the night for the BFGoodrich party. More drinks, excellent food, and great dinner conversation with some folks from Tire Rack and Jimi Day of FM3 Marketing - the group that puts on several of the OUSCI Optima events, including the Qualifier we ran in Arlington last year - so we had met before. Turns out our dinner groupings were to be the same for our four groups during Wednesday's testing too.
Heading to the NOLA Motorsports Facility
Waking up Wednesday morning early, complete with a well earned hang-over, we poured ourselves into our assigned buses and rode out to the brand new and club-style 50 Million Dollar road course facility known as NOLA Motorsports Park. I have never been to this facility, but it is on my 2013 race schedule, May 4-5th, when NASA Texas heads there once again for a race weekend. I couldn't wait to get a peek at the road course and grounds.
Wow, I have been to a lot of "club tracks", but this place was NICE. Palm trees, manicured lawns, huge clubhouse, covered paddocks and lots of garages. And they were still expanding it, with new construction underway all week while BFG was there.
And everywhere you looked, BFG had tons of banners and giant blow-up tires, and a tractor trailer laid out with all of their livery. Goodness gracious they went all out here.
Vorshlag Picture Gallery from the BFG Rival Launch: http://vorshlag.smugmug.com/Racing-E...G-NOLA-012312/
We piled out of the buses and saw the cars we were to drive that day, all lined up. Judas Priest, that's a lot of cars! This was an impressive list, from light RWD roadsters in the MX5 Cup cars, to the AWD turbo Subaru STIs, to the RWD sports coupes that were the E46 M3s, and the solid axle brutes in the FR500S Mustang race cars. All were fitted with the same sized tire, likely for logistical reasons (245/40/18 was the choice), but strangely enough it worked.
Our cars for the day.
My queasy stomach wasn't ready to drive yet and we had hot breakfast waiting inside the gigantic clubhouse cafeteria. Wow, this was outstanding food, especially considering this was "track food". We clustered in groups and scarfed down nourishment and then I slid into the conference room and outside to take some pictures with my Nikon.
After I snuck out for some pictures, we were summoned back inside for the technical show about the Rival. They explained the rubber compounds and tread patterns used in the Rival and why. Explained about better dry grip and exceptional wear, which remained to be seen. You can see each slide from the lengthy slideshow and presentation, with no fewer than 5 presenters, starting at this link.
This wasn't boring marketing drivel, it was interesting engineering background about the tires from internal BFG test drivers, engineers and test drivers from Skip Barber. They talked about tire testing that had been performed on the Rival against some key competitors in the 140-200 UTQG market, such as Yokohama, Dunlop, Toyo, Falken and Hankook.
Many more slides from the presentation can be seen starting here.
(continued below)
As many of you have read already, there was a new tire designed and released in January 2013, adding another member to the 140-200 Treadwear Tire Wars. This tire joins many other popular tires in the 140-200 treadwear "Extreme Summer" tire category. The Rival was designed primarily as a dry weather tire, as noted by the large and blocky tread blocks, with three rows of blocks up to 265mm widths and four rows of blocks for widths above that. The unique features of this tire include exceptionally long wear, a large breadth of section widths ranging from 205/50/15 up to 335/30/18, and prices that are extremely competitive with today's 140-200 treadwear tires. Being 200 UTQG rated, it is legal for the largest number of competitive events as well.
The new BFGoodrich Rival tire model was a well kept secret. When I received an invitation (as "an opinion maker"??) to go to the launch and testing of this tire, the name of this new model was a complete surprise to me. I had heard about the upcoming Dunlop Direzza ZII and even whispers about the Bridgestone RE-11A, but this Rival was an unexpected surprise. They were flying 70-100 people known in the autocross and road race "street tire" circles, media types, and some of their dealers, out to New Orleans on January 21st-23rd for the press release, technical talks, and a lot of test driving on this tire and several key competitors. This included direct autocross and road course testing at the new NOLA Motorsports Park. Who was I to argue? After returning from the first 2013 NASA Time Trial event at MSR-Houston on Sunday, I hopped on a plane early Tuesday morning and flew into New Orleans...
Freebies, Swag and Buying Opinions?
Before we get started, I've been asked by several people, "did they buy a favorable review with this event?" So sure, this BFG launch event cost a chunk of change to put on, as they paid to rent the track, bring over a dozen cars here to drive (plus used half a dozen FR500S race cars that the track already had on hand from its rental fleet), and paid for all sorts of food and drink to the "opinion makers" they invited. They also paid to fly dozens of us to New Orleans, paid for hotel rooms in the Ritz Carlton, gave us some hats/jackets/swag, and let us romp around a road course and autocross courses in their cars, all day, for free. Will this "buy" the opinions from all of the people that were invited to come??
Vorshlag picture gallery from this event: http://vorshlag.smugmug.com/Racing-E...G-NOLA-012312/
No. Not everyone, and the opinions were all very unanimous, from what I've heard first-hand and read online. Sure, while posh treatment might temper what some might say, I don't think it affects everyone, and least of all me. I've received some nice treatment from several tire companies over the years, with invites to arrive-and-drive events from Hankook, Yokohama and many others, free trips from Bridgestone, and free tires from Yokohama, Bridgestone, and Kumho. I won't let a bag of swag, comped tires, or a free lunch change my opinions or the testing I've performed here at Vorshlag or elsewhere, though. Even if a tire is free, I will say my honest opinion of it. If that tire is fast, I am going to buy it and recommend it. If we put a part on our cars and it sucks I'll point it out, so others don't make the same mistakes I have (of which there are plenty). People like Andy Hollis were there, too, and I know for a fact he doesn't give a fig about sponsorship or freebies - he just wants to WIN. I've seen him run two different brands of tires on opposite ends of the same car, to suit his needs. So there will be some honest opinions about this tire out there, with some first-hand impressions that you can really trust.
I have a been to many tire company sponsored arrive-and-drive events, including Yokohama (left) and Hankook (right).
Who Is This Guy?
If you know who Terry Fair is, and have followed any of my build threads, then the next few paragraphs are not worth reading (rehash). Please skip down to The BFG Rival Launch Event, bolded below.
What is an opinion if you don't know who is giving it, or know their racing/testing/engineering background? I will talk for just a minute about my background with street tires and competition events. If my Facebook pictures from the BFG Rival event are an indicator, this written review could end up just about anywhere. So let's see... I started autocrossing in 1987 and ran street and R-compound tires throughout college. Being a starving engineering student I tended to stick with street compound tires, as these provided the best bang for the buck... kind of like how autocross was more affordable than open lapping or wheel-to-wheel club racing. Since Texas A&M Univ. is located right next to a road course (Texas World Speedway), I was able to enter a number of PCA HPDE events, racing around the road course there through college, and I corner-worked many of their events just to get free track time. I even worked out at the track for a while, testing cars on track for some oil additive companies. We also set-up several 1.4+ mile road courses and called them autocrosses out at the Riverside Annex, in our autocross club (TAMSCC).
Note: All of my competition during that period were in higher powered RWD cars, with a few exceptions. I never did go for light, FWD cars, so my opinions and experience regarding tire use on those cars are limited. Even in college we "tested tires", pooling our meager resources and swapping cars at practice autocross events, where we each often took 50-75+ timed autocross runs in a given day. We learned quickly which tires were fast and which were hype. Two other students in TAMSCC and I also created a sort of unlimited, "street tire only" class in 1991 that we called Super Street Modified. We kept it to 275mm and smaller widths and 200+ treadwear, and this was quickly the largest class at our monthly auto-x events. College students and drivers from Houston and Dallas and Austin alike flocked to this class, where the tire widths and compounds kept spending and horsepower in check. Think of a mash-up of SCCA Street Mod blended with the tires similar to Street Touring. We would regularly have 25+ entrants in this class, and we pushed the limits of 200 treadwear tires long before the SCCA created their Street Touring classes around 2003, and before their Street Mod category existed.
Left: Racing in STU at a ProSolo in 2006 on Yokohama AD07s. Right: Solo Nats in 2007 on Bridgestone RE-01Rs.
After leaving college with years of racing in various autocross classes and track events on R-compound tires, I came into the Street Touring autocross classes in 2004. I started co-driving a friend's 1997 BMW M3 and we raced this car together from 2004-2007, netting some good trophies at Nationals and my wife taking two wins in STU-L in the car. Then we jumped around from STS, STX, and STU in various cars up through 2011 - mostly 2700-3400 pound RWD and AWD cars, almost always with more than 300 whp. Noting the popularity of "racing on your street tires", we developed dozens of Vorshlag and AST suspension parts on these chassis, usually racing on street compound tires ranging from 140-200 treadwear. During this period I raced and tested on Falken, Dunlop, Hankook, Yokohama, Bridgestone, Toyo, Pirelli, and Goodyear brand tires, often on more than one model from those brands. And to be completely transparent, my wife and/or I were sponsored drivers for both Yokohama and Bridgestone at various times.
Racing in two LeMons Endurance events once again brought me back to 200 treadwear Dunlop Z1s (left) and Falkens (right).
In 2011, two different 24 hours de LeMons teams asked me to co-drive in their cars, which I did and had a LOT of fun. This is an endurance wheel to wheel road racing series made for "$500" cars, similar in many ways to the ChumpCar series. These two endurance series both require 200 treadwear tires, so I was running on the Dunlop and Falken tires that the two teams chose. Then in 2012 I ran a couple of Optima Challenge qualifier events, where I was once again on 200 treadwear tires that I had to buy, as that is the limit in that series.
Left: 7 of the 9 events BFG sponsors are ones that we have entered. Right: Optima Challenge's autocross+track+speed-stop format is a favorite.
The Optima series' 200 TW requirement was a difficult change, as I had been free to choose from 140-180 TW tires for years while running with SCCA in Street Touring - but we made a compromise and found a tire that we thought might be suitable for the wider sizes we needed on a heavy, 430 whp car. Unfortunately the 295mm Nitto NT-05 we chose was mostly a dud, but we still won the autocross portion at a Optima event and placed 3rd in the road course, so it wasn't a total loss. After having spoken about the downsides of this tire many times, I vowed to come back and run more of these Qualifiers in 2013 on better rubber! So I've been really watching the 200+ treadwear category with interest since early 2012, as this is the minimum treadwear number in Goodguys, ChumpCar, LeMons, ASCS, and Optima OUSCI events, and these tires could be used in any class that required 140 or higher treadwear.
I have already test driven and/or competed on all of these tire brands in 2013, plus some more
I also ran several NASA events in 2010-11 on street compound tires, to keep the points down enough to be able to stay in the TTB class, before ditching that idea and jumping into TTS (now in TT3). So that's my brief history with competition events on "street tires". I guess you could say that I was racing on 140-200 treadwear tires before it was en vogue? And I've been doing it on what many consider to be the heavier end of the autocross spectrum (2700-3500 lbs), with a lot of Time Trial and endurance W2W road course experience on these tires as well. Not the typical FWD Honda Street Tourer, or the typical R-compound-only autocrosser background, so if your tire uses sound more like mine, then maybe my review of the BFG Rival or any other tire I've tested/raced on will resonate more than others?
I don't know if that matters or not, but I just wanted to put that out there. I tend to distrust most of what I read on the internets, and I rarely trust the opinions and "reviews" about racing related products when I know nothing about the reviewer.
The BFG Rival Launch Event
So I arrive at the New Orleans airport to find a driver and town car waiting to whisk me to the Ritz Carlton hotel down in the French Quarter. Yep, they sprung for some fancy digs. Warning lights were sounding in my head and I thought "Man, this tire must really need some help". I was the first to arrive that day at registration and I got a key to my room and a bag full of BFG swag then headed up to my suite. Damn nice digs. In my room, I found a "top secret" engineering document that was "accidentally" left there. Pretty cute, but I took pics of each page and posted them on Facebook. You can see them starting here.
Click here to see 10 pages from this "confidential report".
There was a group already out at the track testing that day and I had to wait until Wednesday to get my hands on the cars and tires offered up to the second half of the tester group. With 7 hours to kill before drinks and dinner at 6 pm that night, I went out to the French Quarter and made a day of tourist attractions, excellent food and wicked drinks. At 6 pm I came out to the courtyard where they had an open bar, and saw friends who had arrived and introduced myself to many others in attendance. I met folks from Michelin/BFG (the latter company being owned by the former, so there is some crossover) and got to meet famous people I had only seen on TV, like the owners of Detroit Speed, Inc, Kyle & Stacy Tucker.
Left: DSI co-owner and Optima competitor Stacy Tucker Right: Incredible meal at Arnaud's.
Then the group meandered down the French Quarter to Arnaud's restaurant, which was closed for the night for the BFGoodrich party. More drinks, excellent food, and great dinner conversation with some folks from Tire Rack and Jimi Day of FM3 Marketing - the group that puts on several of the OUSCI Optima events, including the Qualifier we ran in Arlington last year - so we had met before. Turns out our dinner groupings were to be the same for our four groups during Wednesday's testing too.
Heading to the NOLA Motorsports Facility
Waking up Wednesday morning early, complete with a well earned hang-over, we poured ourselves into our assigned buses and rode out to the brand new and club-style 50 Million Dollar road course facility known as NOLA Motorsports Park. I have never been to this facility, but it is on my 2013 race schedule, May 4-5th, when NASA Texas heads there once again for a race weekend. I couldn't wait to get a peek at the road course and grounds.
Wow, I have been to a lot of "club tracks", but this place was NICE. Palm trees, manicured lawns, huge clubhouse, covered paddocks and lots of garages. And they were still expanding it, with new construction underway all week while BFG was there.
And everywhere you looked, BFG had tons of banners and giant blow-up tires, and a tractor trailer laid out with all of their livery. Goodness gracious they went all out here.
Vorshlag Picture Gallery from the BFG Rival Launch: http://vorshlag.smugmug.com/Racing-E...G-NOLA-012312/
We piled out of the buses and saw the cars we were to drive that day, all lined up. Judas Priest, that's a lot of cars! This was an impressive list, from light RWD roadsters in the MX5 Cup cars, to the AWD turbo Subaru STIs, to the RWD sports coupes that were the E46 M3s, and the solid axle brutes in the FR500S Mustang race cars. All were fitted with the same sized tire, likely for logistical reasons (245/40/18 was the choice), but strangely enough it worked.
Our cars for the day.
My queasy stomach wasn't ready to drive yet and we had hot breakfast waiting inside the gigantic clubhouse cafeteria. Wow, this was outstanding food, especially considering this was "track food". We clustered in groups and scarfed down nourishment and then I slid into the conference room and outside to take some pictures with my Nikon.
After I snuck out for some pictures, we were summoned back inside for the technical show about the Rival. They explained the rubber compounds and tread patterns used in the Rival and why. Explained about better dry grip and exceptional wear, which remained to be seen. You can see each slide from the lengthy slideshow and presentation, with no fewer than 5 presenters, starting at this link.
This wasn't boring marketing drivel, it was interesting engineering background about the tires from internal BFG test drivers, engineers and test drivers from Skip Barber. They talked about tire testing that had been performed on the Rival against some key competitors in the 140-200 UTQG market, such as Yokohama, Dunlop, Toyo, Falken and Hankook.
Many more slides from the presentation can be seen starting here.
(continued below)
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