WINNER Maxxis Premitra HP5

Renato noted that the Maxxis “got slightly crossed up,” during the dry brake tests, but the seat of the pants feel didn’t indicate any lack of stopping power. In fact, the Maxxis Premitra HP5 pulled up an average of 0.6m shorter than the next-best stopper, the Bridgestone, which Ren recorded as having “very positive brake pedal modulation”. Comparing the Maxxis with the dry-braking tail-ender saw its advantage increase to more than halfalf a car length. The dry brake test saw thehe Maxxis rubber, erm … bounce back, ck, then, from sixth place in the slalom.m. Yet this wouldn’t be its only podium, or even its sole gold…