TIRE
DRIVE
December 6, 2023
A tire has a tread portion provided with grooves. The ground contact area of the tread portion has ground contact lengths in the tire circumferential direction which include a crown ground contact length LC at the tire equator C and a shoulder ground contact length LS at a position spaced apart from the tire equator C by 80% of a half tread width Tw. The crown ground contact length LC is 0.95 to 1.05 times the shoulder ground contact length LS. Groove depths of the respective grooves are determined so as to satisfy specific mathematical equations based on a reference virtual groove G0 having a predetermined groove depth d0 and defined at the tire equator C.
Discussion in the ATmosphere