Video: What is Tire Contour? - Tire Review Magazine

Video: What is Tire Contour?

Tire Review's Maddie Winer delves into how tire development engineers find balance in a tire's contour, from the Tire Review Continental Tire Garage Studio at Babcox Media.

Tire contour provides the shape of the tire and how round or flat and wide or narrow it can be designed. A tire engineer’s main task is to provide an optimal footprint to achieve the best tire handling, wear performance and fuel efficiency.

Tire Review’s Maddie Winer delves into how tire development engineers find balance in a tire’s contour, from the Tire Review Continental Tire Garage Studio at Babcox Media.

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