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2025 Tire Rack Extreme Performance Track Tire Test
- Tested size
- 275/35 R18
- Tires tested
- 7
- Disciplines
- 9
- Test vehicle
- BMW M2
Set the weightings
Move a slider. The other categories rebalance automatically to keep the total at 100%.
Starts with the saved weights for this test.
Test defaults
Results
Movement is compared with the default calculation, not the published finishing order. Scores use unrounded totals for ranking.
No ranking for this setup. Give at least one category a positive weight and include a discipline in each active category, or reset the weights.
Filtering never changes the benchmark, scores or positions.
No tires selected. Add tires to your shortlist to focus the ranking.
| ft ↓ | s ↓ | s ↓ | Points ↑ | ft ↓ | s ↓ | Points ↑ | Points ↑ | Points ↑ | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | 98.94 | 94 | 99.38 | 99.78 | 8.75 | 99.9 | 156 | 31.05 | 8.00 | 100.0 | 5.75 | 5.25 | 89.9 | |
Score contributionCategory score × of overall score Dry99.93 × 70% = 69.95 Wet100 × 20% = 20 Comfort89.92 × 10% = 8.99 | |||||||||||||||
| 2 | 3 | 96.92 | 94 | 99.64 | 100.08 | 8.75 | 99.8 | 178 | 32.44 | 6.00 | 86.3 | 6.00 | 6.00 | 98.0 | |
Score contributionCategory score × of overall score Dry99.8 × 70% = 69.86 Wet86.27 × 20% = 17.25 Comfort98 × 10% = 9.8 | |||||||||||||||
| 3 | 7 | 94.82 | 101 | 99.70 | 100.14 | 8.00 | 97.5 | 171 | 32.24 | 6.50 | 89.8 | 5.50 | 5.00 | 85.8 | |
Score contributionCategory score × of overall score Dry97.54 × 70% = 68.27 Wet89.81 × 20% = 17.96 Comfort85.84 × 10% = 8.58 | |||||||||||||||
| 4 | 4 | 96.63 | 95 | 99.43 | 100.57 | 8.25 | 98.9 | 181 | 33.01 | 6.50 | 87.0 | 6.00 | 6.25 | 100.0 | |
Score contributionCategory score × of overall score Dry98.89 × 70% = 69.22 Wet87.01 × 20% = 17.4 Comfort100 × 10% = 10 | |||||||||||||||
| 5 | 2 | 97.85 | 96 | 100.20 | 100.88 | 8.75 | 98.9 | 173 | 31.15 | 7.25 | 93.1 | 6.00 | 6.25 | 100.0 | |
Score contributionCategory score × of overall score Dry98.91 × 70% = 69.24 Wet93.08 × 20% = 18.62 Comfort100 × 10% = 10 | |||||||||||||||
| 6 | 5 | 96.41 | 94 | 99.88 | 101.10 | 8.75 | 99.3 | 170 | 32.23 | 7.25 | 92.8 | 5.25 | 5.00 | 83.8 | |
Score contributionCategory score × of overall score Dry99.26 × 70% = 69.48 Wet92.77 × 20% = 18.55 Comfort83.75 × 10% = 8.38 | |||||||||||||||
| 7 | 6 | 95.75 | 95 | 99.63 | 101.35 | 8.00 | 98.2 | 164 | 31.97 | 7.25 | 94.2 | 5.25 | 4.75 | 81.8 | |
Score contributionCategory score × of overall score Dry98.17 × 70% = 68.72 Wet94.25 × 20% = 18.85 Comfort81.75 × 10% = 8.18 | |||||||||||||||
Raw results do not change when you move the sliders. Scroll horizontally to see every discipline.
Leading with these priorities
Bridgestone Potenza RE 71RS
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.
- Dry Weighting 70% Real impact 28%
- Wet Weighting 20% Real impact 31%
- Comfort Weighting 10% Real impact 41%
- Subj. Noise counts for 5% of the score but creates 26% of the difference between the tires, because their results in it were far apart.
- Dry Handling Long Run counts for 28% of the score but creates only 7% of the difference, because most tires performed about the same in it.
Every discipline 9
| Discipline | Weighting | Real impact |
|---|---|---|
| Dry Braking | 14% | 6% |
| Dry Handling | 21% | 2% |
| Dry Handling Long Run | 28% | 7% |
| Subj. Dry Handling | 7% | 14% |
| Wet Braking | 8% | 10% |
| Wet Handling | 6% | 4% |
| Subj. Wet Handling | 6% | 16% |
| Subj. Comfort | 5% | 15% |
| Subj. Noise | 5% | 26% |
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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