— SportContact 6

The Continental SportContact 6 is particularly suited to pure sports cars as well as vehicles of business class and for the electrically powered cars, too.

To boost the performance of the new SportContact 6 even more, the chemists at Continental have further developed the “Black Chili” tread compound. In the SportContact 6, two factors ensure optimum adhesion when pushed to the limits. The rubber compound is designed to mesh with the roughness of the road. At the same time, temporary atomic connections between the tyre compound and the road surface ensure high adhesion, acting like small suction pads at nanoscopic level. Both factors make for the greatest possible adhesion in all directions – during braking, cornering, and acceleration on both wet and dry roads.

To achieve precise handling and rapid steering performance, Continental’s tyre designers use force vectoring technology for optimal force transfer. This technology deploys different tread elements on the inside, outside, and center of the tyre. Because the outside of the tyre is subject to greater forces than the inside during cornering, the rib flanks are designed to be asymmetrical. When working on the outer shoulders, the tyre designers combined the different block elements to form one larger unit. Large tread blocks on the outside are connected with interlaced elements in a second row of blocks. This allows the tread blocks to support each other during fast cornering and offer optimum lateral force transfer.

Continental SportContact 6 is approved for up to 350 km/h. To achieve this, Continental’s engineers have come up with an innovative structure that controls the huge forces on the tyre, ensuring maximum driving safety. Using the innovative “Aralon 350” material developed especially for the SportContact 6, Continental utilises a synthetic fiber in which two yarns made from strong aramid are closely interwoven with a yarn of flexible nylon. Implanted in rubber, this fiber is placed under the tread as a joint-less cap ply. This complex structure acts like an additional steel belt and offers controlled, safe tyre contour behavior even at maximum speed.
As an additional safety feature in the tread design multicolored Summer UHP TWI is used. It informs the driver when the remaining tyre tread is 3 mm, or additionally when the remaining depth is only 1,6 mm.
Improvements of performance in comparison with ContiSportContact 5P: steering precision 14%, stability at high speed 10%, wear 7%, noise level 7%, wet braking 0%, dry handling 11%, grip on race track 4%, aquaplaning 0%.
On the EU Tyre Label, the new SportContact 6 achieves the top “A” rating for wet grip and „E” rating for fuel efficiency.

Main advantages:
• Black Chili for maximum grip in all directions enables supreme driving experience;
• Force vectoring for maximum control, a new era in tread pattern development;
• Aralon350™, the new adaptive hybrid cap ply for maximum stability at high speeds up to 350km/h.