Rancho Cucamonga, CA: Dunlop’s all-new Sportmax Slick doesn’t simply speak an enormous recreation, it proves its efficiency in lap instances! On the Dunlop Proving Grounds, in Huntsville, Alabama, Dunlop’s Motorbike Check Engineer Taylor Knapp averaged nearly an entire second enchancment on the Sportmax Slick over the KR451. Extra spectacular than that, numerous lap and sophistication data have been demolished with the brand new and improved tire throughout the 2023 MotoAmerica collection at 9 out of ten tracks in a number of lessons!
The Sportmax Slick had lap data damaged in any respect the MotoAmerica tracks in 2023 besides at Pittsburgh Worldwide Race Advanced (because of the new chicane)
The brand new Sportmax Slick, Dunlop’s subsequent technology of street race tires with extra grip and improved predictability is obtainable in 17”, 12” and 10” sizes. The Sportmax Slicks have been up to date with new profiles, compounds, and constructions to make them essentially the most superior street racing tires Dunlop has ever produced! Riders will immediately really feel a larger stage of confidence with the brand new Sportmax Slick. The brand new Dunlop Sportmax Slick was initially solely accessible to be used in MotoAmerica however is now accessible for membership racers and monitor day riders as nicely.
The Sportmax Slicks had been developed during the last 3 years, with inside testing being performed at Dunlop’s Proving Grounds in Huntsville, Alabama by Taylor Knapp and exterior testing being performed by prime MotoAmerica stars resembling multi-time MotoAmerica Superbike champion Jake Gagne, plus Richie Escalante, PJ Jacobsen, Cam Petersen, Josh Herrin, Mathew Scholtz and Josh Hayes, the all-time winningest street racer in AMA historical past, simply to call a number of.
The entrance profile of the Sportmax Slick was pulled up from Dunlop’s Sportmax Q5 improvement and includes a taller and narrower profile. This new profile leads to a tire that has improved path braking suggestions, extra exact turn-in, larger high-speed mid-corner stability, elevated compliance, and a bigger footprint at camber.
The rear tire additionally includes a redesigned profile that’s taller and generates elevated lateral grip, acceleration grip and improved compliance, because of a bigger, extra evenly distributed footprint in any respect angles. This new design has led to a rear tire that’s extra predictable in each space of the nook from turn-in to acceleration at nook exit.
Dunlop’s 17” Sportmax Slicks, developed by Dunlop’s Superior Analysis Group (D.A.R.T), replaces the trade customary KR448 and KR451 vary of slicks and are the brand new Official Tires of the MotoAmerica collection. Dunlop and MotoAmerica lately renewed their contract, permitting Dunlop to stay the official tire provider of MotoAmerica via 2025, persevering with the partnership since 2015.
The Sportmax Slick updates embody:
- Revised compounds and naming constructions to be extra intuitive: R0 (softest) to R8 (most sturdy). The low numbers for simpler or hotter tracks and the upper numbers for extra abrasive or chilly tracks
- New sidewall design with taller sidewalls gives extra cushion and bump absorption for improved traction even on the bumpiest of tracks.
- Optimized rear NTEC which mixes the advantages of compliant cut-breaker development with stiffer, repeatedly wound aramid-fiber, and Jointless Band (JLB) development for optimum really feel and stability when leaned over for extra assist when on the gasoline.
- New taller profile, which results in higher contact patch. Extra predictable change in touch patch space (grip) whereas including lean angle or taking lean angle away and driving out of the nook.
A number of compounds are supplied for the entrance and rear tires, however the R8 compound is unique to the rear tires solely.
As a result of Sportmax Slicks being race tires, tire heaters are extremely really helpful for all compounds.
The brand new Sportmax Slick tires can be found now from dunlopracing.com or out of your native Dunlop trackside vendor.
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