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2025 Summer Tire Test Shootout

Tested size
225/40 R18
Tires tested
52
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 1 99.58 107 100.0 91 99.3
2 3 98.26 110 97.3 91 98.9
3 2 98.31 112 95.9 90 100.0
4 4 98.08 112 95.3 90 100.0
5 4 98.08 112 95.3 90 100.0
6 6 96.32 112 95.6 93 96.8
7 8 95.30 108 98.8 97 92.9
8 7 95.75 114 94.2 93 96.8
9 9 95.29 113 95.0 94 95.5
10 10 94.80 111 96.2 96 93.8
11 12 92.49 112 95.9 100 90.1
12 11 92.73 115 93.4 97 92.3
13 13 91.59 114 93.7 100 90.1
14 16 90.38 111 96.5 104 86.2
15 14 90.61 114 94.2 102 88.1
16 15 90.50 115 93.1 101 88.7
17 17 90.07 116 92.1 101 88.7
18 18 90.00 115 93.1 102 87.8
19 19 89.29 115 92.6 103 87.0
20 21 88.68 114 94.2 106 84.8
21 22 88.13 118 90.6 104 86.4
22 20 89.09 123 87.2 99 90.4
23 23 87.60 119 90.1 105 85.9
24 26 86.60 116 92.1 109 82.8
25 24 87.55 123 87.2 102 87.8
26 25 86.90 121 88.4 105 85.9
27 28 85.56 119 89.6 109 82.8
28 30 84.88 117 91.1 112 80.6
29 29 85.46 121 88.6 108 83.3
30 31 84.61 119 90.1 111 80.8
31 27 85.63 127 84.5 104 86.4
32 32 84.23 118 90.8 113 79.7
33 33 83.80 123 86.7 110 81.8
34 34 83.61 123 86.9 111 81.3
35 35 83.10 124 86.0 111 81.1
36 37 82.82 123 86.7 112 80.1
37 36 82.86 124 86.5 112 80.4
38 39 81.95 122 87.9 115 77.8
39 38 82.00 123 86.7 114 78.7
40 42 81.18 120 89.1 119 75.7
41 40 81.59 124 86.0 115 78.5
42 41 81.32 124 86.0 115 78.1
43 43 80.67 120 89.3 120 74.7
44 44 79.98 122 87.6 120 74.7
45 45 79.33 121 88.4 123 73.1
46 46 78.19 123 86.9 125 72.1
47 47 78.07 123 86.9 125 71.9
48 48 78.07 125 85.6 123 72.9
49 50 77.64 123 86.7 126 71.4
50 49 77.93 128 83.8 122 73.9
51 51 76.69 126 84.9 127 71.0
52 52 71.97 126 85.1 143 62.8

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

Leading with these priorities

Bridgestone Potenza Sport

99.58/ 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% 30%
  • Wet 59% 70%
  • Every discipline’s real impact is close to its weighting, so here the weights are a fair guide to what decides the order.
Every discipline 2
DisciplineWeightingReal impact
Dry Braking 41% 30%
Wet Braking 59% 70%

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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