The new Continental SportContact 7 makes its debut. It is engineered for safe handling on wet and dry roads. Continental's SportContact 7 tyres have three new technical characteristics, including an adaptive tread design that adapts to dry and wet roads for optimal driving pleasure in any vehicle, as well as a BlackChili rubber composition that has been carefully tailored to the tread design for maximum grip.
Continental redefines tyre performance with the new tyre, instilling high levels of confidence in the handling qualities of the new flagship for the Passenger and Light Truck Tires business." The focus of our development is on wanting to have the best sporty summer tyre on the market for every vehicle class," reports Professor Burkhard Wies, Head of Research and Development for the Passenger and Light Truck Tire replacement business worldwide at Continental. "This includes significantly improved handling on dry and wet roads or racetracks and an exceptionally long service life that surpasses that of the previous model by 17 percent. With the EU label value 'C', we are making a good contribution to the issue of sustainability, through good fuel efficiency."
With an asymmetrical, adaptive tread design, the new SportContact 7 can adapt to dry and wet roads, ensuring precision handling and strong control characteristics, even at high speeds. "You can put a tyre under stress if you put increased demands on it," says Wies. "In this kind of situation, the new adaptive tread provides safety and driving confidence together with very precise cornering stability in wet and dry road conditions." This is made possible by the tyre’s innovative design. While driving, the tyre’s footprint ends at the point of the highest water removal in the tread, to offer outstanding grip when braking, accelerating and cornering on wet roads. When cornering on dry roads, the footprint shifts to the outer shoulder, which is designed to transmit the highest forces for stable handling. New "locking elements" in the outer shoulder ensure further stability, only enabling limited movement of the tread for high ride stability.
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Conventional sports tyres react differently to different vehicle models – depending on the weight, size and engine of the car in question. "Our new Continental SportContact 7, is the first product in the high-performance tyre segment that is tailor-made for every type of vehicle," explains Wies. Heavy vehicles require different tyre solutions to light cars. So, the specifications of the SportContact 7 are adapted to each vehicle class. "As a result, we have developed new technologies, suitable for roads and racing, that are used depending on the tyre size, so the typical driving feel of the SportContact family is retained irrespective of vehicle. This includes a design tailored to different vehicle classes. We can also adapt the stability of the sidewall, the grip under different loads, as well as the high-speed capability, handling and design of the carcass to every vehicle class," he adds.
The BlackChili rubber compound, which has been perfectly tailored to the tread design, is the new SportContact 7's third technological building block. This soft compound is a fantastic complement for the very rigid, low-profiled tyre design, allowing for not only outstanding handling but also increased mileage. Continental's tyre engineers and scientists had to balance a number of competing goals to do this, resulting in an uncommon mixing compound technology that, when combined with the tread design, allows for considerable improvements in handling qualities.
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When comparing the SportContact 7 to its popular predecessor, Continental's internal tests yielded outstanding results. Service life is increased by 17 percent, racing mileage is increased by 10%, wet braking distances are decreased by 8%, and the new SportContact 7 is even better in dry braking by 6%. This innovative invention will improve handling and grip in both wet and dry situations (test with tyre size 245/30 R 20).
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