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2020 Tire Market Overview Braking Test

Tested size
245/45 R18
Tires tested
49
Disciplines
2

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No test-specific category weights are recorded; this starts with season defaults.

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within category · 41% of overall score

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within category · 59% of overall score

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Season defaults

Results

Movement is compared with the default calculation, not the published finishing order. Scores use unrounded totals for ranking.

Measured results in the tested size. Arrows show whether lower or higher is better.
ft ↓ft ↓
1 3 97.82 105 100.0 98 96.3
2 2 98.20 108 97.6 95 98.6
3 1 98.29 110 95.8 94 100.0
4 5 95.71 109 96.7 99 95.0
5 4 96.10 115 92.0 95 99.0
6 6 94.62 109 96.7 101 93.2
7 7 94.44 109 96.7 101 92.9
8 10 93.50 110 96.1 103 91.7
9 8 93.81 114 92.5 99 94.7
10 8 93.81 114 92.5 99 94.7
11 11 93.35 113 93.6 101 93.2
12 12 91.90 112 93.9 104 90.5
13 14 91.18 112 94.1 106 89.1
14 16 90.65 112 94.4 107 88.0
15 13 91.72 118 89.2 101 93.5
16 15 90.93 116 90.7 103 91.1
17 18 89.68 113 93.6 108 87.0
18 17 89.81 118 89.2 104 90.3
19 19 89.13 117 89.9 106 88.6
20 23 88.52 114 92.2 110 85.9
21 21 88.81 117 89.9 107 88.0
22 22 88.54 116 90.4 108 87.2
23 20 88.94 119 88.7 106 89.1
24 24 88.08 118 88.9 108 87.5
25 25 86.76 114 92.2 114 83.0
26 26 86.08 116 90.9 114 82.7
27 27 86.03 118 89.4 113 83.7
28 29 85.63 114 92.5 116 80.9
29 28 85.64 118 89.2 113 83.2
30 32 84.46 119 88.7 115 81.5
31 30 85.05 123 85.6 111 84.7
33 33 83.99 118 89.2 117 80.4
34 31 85.01 116 90.7 116 81.1
35 38 82.00 120 87.5 120 78.2
36 34 83.94 122 86.1 114 82.5
37 35 83.40 121 86.8 116 81.1
38 37 82.70 121 87.0 118 79.7
39 36 82.81 122 86.3 117 80.4
40 39 81.83 120 88.0 121 77.6
41 41 81.68 119 88.2 122 77.2
42 40 81.82 124 85.2 118 79.5
43 43 81.23 120 87.7 123 76.7
44 42 81.34 121 86.8 121 77.6
45 45 80.26 116 90.9 129 72.8
46 44 80.39 120 88.0 125 75.1
47 46 79.07 121 87.2 128 73.4
48 47 79.04 122 86.1 127 74.2
49 48 77.00 123 85.8 133 70.9
50 49 71.30 135 78.3 142 66.4

Raw results do not change when you move the sliders. Scroll horizontally to see every discipline.

Leading with these priorities

Bridgestone Potenza S001

98.29/ 100

These are calculated scenarios, not new test awards. The published verdict may reflect judgement, close results and factors outside this calculation.

Not ranked: a measurement needed for these weights is missing. Missing results are not treated as zero or redistributed.

Reference tires provide context only. They do not set the benchmark and cannot win the personalised ranking.

Weighting vs real impact

What decides this ranking

The weighting is how much each category counts. The real impact is how much of the difference between the tires it creates: a discipline in which every tire performed about the same barely changes the order, however much it counts.

No weighting is recorded for this test, so the weighting here starts from Tire Reviews’ season defaults, not from the test’s own scoring.

  • Dry 41% 23%
  • Wet 59% 77%
  • Dry Braking counts for 41% of the score but creates only 23% of the difference, because most tires performed about the same in it.
Every discipline 2
DisciplineWeightingReal impact
Dry Braking 41% 23%
Wet Braking 59% 77%

How it is worked out: each discipline’s weighting is multiplied by the spread of its results (the gap across the middle half of the tires, as a percentage of the best result), then shared out so that all the disciplines add up to 100%. It estimates what separates the tires; it is not a second set of weights, and it follows the weights you set.

How your ranking is calculated

Each discipline is scored against the best non-reference tire in the full test field: best ÷ result × 100 when lower is better, or result ÷ best × 100 when higher is better. Discipline scores are rounded to two decimal places, then combined using your weights.

Within-category weights divide that category’s share of the overall score. A 50% wet category and 40% wet-braking share give wet braking 20% of the total. A weight is a scoring priority, not a measure of its actual effect on the ranking: the performance gaps matter too. What decides this ranking ↑

Published joint positions are preserved separately. Calculated positions tie only when their underlying scores match; two displayed scores can look equal after rounding.

A zero weight excludes that category or discipline. At least one active discipline is required, and the disciplines in every active category must have a positive total.

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