Davanti extends UHP tyre range, adding Protoura Race semi-slick

Davanti has extended its ultra-high performance tyre range with a new semi-slick track tyre. The Protoura Race joins the Protoura Sport in its range of bold, budget-conscious designs engineered to deliver high levels of performance on the road and on the track.

Davanti says the Protoura Race has been added to offer an option for drivers to extend their enjoyment of performance from the road to the racing circuit. The brand’s first track tyre offers a semi-slick tread design with a combination of dry grip and control in the wet without compromising speed, making it a successful formula to outpace the ordinary. Key features of Davanti’s first-ever track tyre include a directional tread pattern to provide superior control in wet weather conditions; enhanced carcass strength to provide direct feedback to the driver and control under high cornering forces experienced on race tracks; a new compound with added grip for greater braking and acceleration power; and a semi-slick tread design, allowing the tyre to be driven straight from the track to the road.

After succeeding in some of the most demanding, controlled testing scenarios to ensure the tyre was capable of delivering the pace and agility needed on track, the Protoura Race was also put through its paces in Spain at the Applus IDIADA testing grounds and Calafat Circuit, as well as the UK’s Formula One venue, Silverstone.

Protoura Sport

The Davanti Protoura Sport has a pattern that combines cutting-edge technological features and premium design to guarantee superior levels of grip, endurance and comfort. The brand says the tyre balances elements of style and strength to achieve a tyre which is both distinctive in its sports performance, and professional in its technical capabilities.

Features of the design include: a maximised contact patch with a solid continuous centre rib that transfers cornering forces to the tyre structure and maximises contact with the road; hydro-dynamic dimples, rhombus-shaped reliefs that disrupt flow closest to the tyre surface, resulting in reduced drag and more efficient water evacuation; modified outer channels: to minimise road noise output with constricted notches; ribbed and serrated block edges to bite into the road under longitudinal force, increasing grip; and trapezoid projections in the inner groove that create low-pressure zones and aid the flow of water.

Runflat model

Davanti Protoura Sport DSP Runflat (Photo: Davanti Tyres)

The Protoura Sport DSP Runflat provide another option to recommend to motorists who are looking for sporty handling but tend to drive longer distances and are looking for additional peace of mind. The Protoura Sport DSP Runflat has been designed with the technological features and benefits of a runflat in mind, whilst maintaining the ability to deliver extraordinary levels of performance.

Following an extensive testing and development programme at industry-leading proving grounds, the new tyre offers peace of mind to motorists – thanks to its runflat technology – and superior levels of grip, endurance and comfort, to allow drivers to excel on the road, whatever the destination.

The tyre has been developed and tested to vehicle manufacturer OE standards, equal to a premium runflat tyre. Davanti has performed runflat testing to ensure optimal performance. In addition to the standard drum test, this includes: Pop-on pressure, ensuring that the tyres are easy to mount onto and dismount from the rim – a typical challenge for runflat tyres – whilst maintaining sufficient force on the wheel for reliable operation; RPA sensitivity test, ensuring the tyre is well within the tolerance bounds of Tyre Pressure Monitoring Systems. This test determines the variance in circumference between inflated and uninflated states, for vehicles that rely on this technology to detect that a tyre has deflated; and rim roll-off test, certifying that the deflated tyre stays mounted to the rim when undergoing lateral forces, a factor that cannot be determined by the standard drum test alone. This test was carried out by performing J turns with a tyre under zero pressure to ensure it remained mounted to the rim as required for OE standards.