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Wet Braking
To stop quickly on a rain-soaked surface requires a different range of abilities. Which is a wet winner?
If you need to stop in a hurry, regardless of the
conditions, then you’ll want to be driving on PremiumContact 2s. The
Continentals repeated their dry braking win on our flooded road, stopping in
35.7 metres.
The margin of victory was much smaller here, though, with
only 30cm separating the German tyre from wet track specialists Vredestein and Goodyear.
So close was the result that the top seven products were covered by well under
a metre.
Pirelli returned to form, matching the Goodyear result, and
french opponent Michelin trailed by a further 10cm. Just behind these were the
Fulda and Hankook.
Motorsport giants Dunlop and Bridgestone stopped in under 38
metres, with Kumho just over that mark. No prizes for guessing which brand
brought up the rear: our Chinese contender took a huge 46.5 metres.
If a car fitted with Wanli tyres did an emergency stop
behind one running on Continentals, it would still be travelling at 30mph at the
point of collision. Scary!
Maxxis again showed its dislike of wet conditions, taking 42.4
metres to bring the A4 to a halt
from 50mph. That’s not as bad as the Wanli, but still a long way behind its
other rivals.
