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Dunlop develop new soft tyre for 2016 BTCC

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Dunlop has developed a new specification soft tyre to be introduced for the 2016 British Touring Car Championship season.

The new soft tyre has been tested by Colin Turkington, Sam Tordoff and Matt Neal in their respective cars during the summer of 2015 at Donington Park and Snetterton.

“The BTCC season involves a wide variety of circuits, cars and temperatures and our goal is to have two tyres that can perform strongly over a race distance – but depending on the circuit, one tyre will always be the optimum one. At Snetterton, we tested in 30c track temperatures and at Donington in 12c temperatures and we are confident that we have developed a range of BTCC tyres that have the versatility to suit all circuits and climates,” said Armand Rup, Motorsport Design Engineer at Dunlop.

The soft tyre will continue to be identified by white letters on the sidewall while the medium tyre will be identified with yellow and black lettering.