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Snowcontrol Serie II… the real protagonist of the Tour

Filed Under (Travel Diary) by Team Pirelli on 29-09-2009

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Here we are again! :)

We talked about the Tour, defining and telling you what will happen, we revealed who will be the participants… but the real protagonist didn’t have its well-deserved room yet!

Of course we already mentioned it… Winter Snowcontrol Serie II… but still we didn’t tell you that much about this new Pirelli winter tyre.
The Pirelli Research & Development Team projected the Snowcontrol Serie II to guarantee safety and reliability in every winter condition… not just when it snows (like a lot of people thinks relating to winter tyres)!
The R&D team thought about a flexible tyre, perfect for urban and extra-urban roads, for city cars (that’s why there are no Porsche and Lamborghini at the Tour!).

But let’s discover its main characteristics… and we promise we won’t use too many technical terms!
It’s equipped with the Interactive Brickwork Siping Technology: a specific sipe layout to achieve a more stable pattern in lateral and longitudinal directions, improving the behaviour on dry and wet surfaces and reducing the braking distance.

Thanks to its pattern design with two wide lateral grooves, the Snowcontrol Serie II provides a better and faster water and slush expulsion, guaranteeing more aquaplaning resistance (aquaplaning is a very dangerous phenomenon!), and a very good traction on snowy surfaces.
And you can get all of this together with good comfort while driving… so basically you won’t hear too much noise!
If anyway you wish to have more technical information, you can take a look at the Pirelli website!

The Tour’s participants will experience this product soon… and we hope you will do it too! :)
See you next time!

Winter Snowcontrol Serie II     Snowcontrol Serie II - detail