2020 Tyre Market Overview Braking Test

Dry Braking	▲Michelin Pilot Sport 4: 32.1 M	▼King-Meiler Sport 3 KM: 41 M
Wet Braking	▲Bridgestone Potenza S001: 28.7 M	▼King-Meiler Sport 3 KM: 43.2 M

Every year the German publication Auto Bild performs the industries most comprehensive tyre test by putting a huge number of tyres through wet and dry braking, to find the best twenty tyres to progress through to a full tyre test.

For the 2020 summer season, Auto Bild have tested fifty tyres in 245/45 R18, which gives us an excellent overview of the UHP market for 2020.

While the results are mostly as expected, there are a few small surprises below worth noting. Nokian performs very well in wet and dry braking, finishing second overall, but more surprisingly the Bridgestone Potenza S001 wins the wet braking test, which is an area the Bridgestone has struggled with in the past. This indicates Bridgestone have put through a pretty major update to the tyre, it will be interesting to see how it performs in the full test.

It's also nice to see Kumho back near the top after struggling for a number of years, and the budget brand Zeetex upsets some of the more premium rivals, including Pirelli, to finish in eighteenth place.

Full results below, come back to the site in about a month when there will be the more in depth test of the top twenty tyres available.

Dry Braking

Wet Braking

Results

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1st: Michelin Pilot Sport 4

245/45 R18

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2nd: Nokian PowerProof

245/45 R18

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3rd: Bridgestone Potenza S001

245/45 R18

2020 Tyre Market Overview Braking Test

Test Summary

Dry Braking

Wet Braking

Results

1st: Michelin Pilot Sport 4

2nd: Nokian PowerProof

3rd: Bridgestone Potenza S001

4th: Continental Premium Contact 6

5th: Kumho Ecsta PS71

6th: Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 5

7th: Nexen N Fera Sport SU2

8th: Vredestein Ultrac Vorti

9th: Apollo Aspire XP

10th: Hankook Ventus S1 evo 3

11th: Firestone RoadHawk

12th: Fulda SportControl 2

13th: Kleber Dynaxer UHP

14th: Laufenn S Fit EQ+

15th: Falken Azenis FK510

16th: Toyo Proxes Sport

17th: Dunlop SportMaxx RT 2

18th: Zeetex HP2000 vfm

19th: Uniroyal RainSport 3

20th: Maxxis Victra Sport 5

21st: Infinity Ecomax

22nd: Giti GitiSport S1

23rd: Semperit SpeedLife 2

24th: Debica Presto UHP2

25th: Pirelli P Zero

26th: Yokohama Advan Sport V105

27th: Mabor Sport Jet 3

28th: Sava Intensa UHP 2

29th: Cooper Zeon Sport

30th: Avon ZZS

31st: Gislaved Ultra Speed

33rd: Matador MP 47 Hectorra 3

34th: General Altimax One S

35th: Radar Dimax R8

36th: Viking ProTech HP

37th: Tracmax X Privilo TX3

38th: Minerva Radial F 205

39th: Rotalla RU01 S Pace

40th: Tristar Sportpower 2

41st: Dayton Touring 2

42nd: Barum Bravuris 5HM

43rd: Marshal MU12

44th: Seiberling Seiberling Touring 2

45th: Federal Evoluzion ST 1

46th: Nankang NS2

47th: GT Radial SportActive

48th: Imperial Ecosport 2

49th: Accelera PHI R

50th: King Meiler Sport 3 KM

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