- Devoted slick tyre developed for circuit use
- Entrance and rear fitments debuts on Apache RR 310 and RTR 200 race bikes
- Eurogrip enters its eighth 12 months as technical associate to the TVS One Make Championship
Eurogrip Protorq Racing slick tyre has made its debut on the 2026 Petronas TVS India One Make Championship. Its retail value has not been introduced, and Eurogrip has not confirmed a industrial launch for normal clients but. For now the brand new tyre is being utilized in competitors on the TVS Apache RR 310 and Apache RTR 200 race bikes.
Protorq Racing is a correct slick with an uninterrupted tread floor designed to maximise rubber contact with the racetrack. Eurogrip has additionally developed a race-specific carcass development and compound for the tyre with specific consideration paid to stability and behavior at excessive lean angles.
A standard avenue tyre wants grooves to handle water, should work throughout a large temperature vary and has to ship affordable sturdiness over 1000’s of kilometres. A slick used on a dry circuit can focus way more closely on floor contact, cornering grip and predictable behaviour when the bike is being pushed in direction of the sting of the tyre. The absence of tread grooves offers the Protorq Racing a bigger steady contact space with the circuit.
For the 2026 season, each the Apache RR 310 and Apache RTR 200 race bikes are operating Protorq Racing slicks on the entrance and rear. Having the identical tyre household examined throughout each racing platforms ought to assist engineers perceive how the carcass and compound behave below a wider vary of circumstances. Eurogrip is now coming into its eighth consecutive 12 months because the technical tyre associate to TVS Racing. That offers the corporate repeated entry to actual circuit circumstances quite than remoted testing classes.
Eurogrip says the info and suggestions generated by means of racing offers its analysis and growth groups info that can be utilized to enhance tyre efficiency and dealing with. This doesn’t imply the Protorq Racing expertise will merely be transferred unchanged to a avenue tyre, however competitors can assist engineers perceive supplies and development methods below excessive circumstances.
Eurogrip has not stated whether or not the Protorq Racing will ultimately be provided to non-public racers or track-day riders. For now, the announcement issues its use within the Petronas TVS India One Make Championship.
