For years, Michelin has been the go-to tire producer for OEMs and particular person consumers seeking to enhance grip and dealing with. The Pilot Sport 4S, launched all the best way again in 2017, stays a dominant drive within the phase, delivering superior efficiency in nearly each state of affairs. However it’s now not the king. That title now belongs to Pirelli.

The Tyre Evaluations YouTube channel introduced collectively a few of the best ultra-high-performance tires in the marketplace at this time for a side-by-side comparability take a look at, together with these from Michelin, Pirelli, Continental, Goodyear, and Bridgestone.

As with every well-rounded tire comparability, this one makes use of a number of varieties of assessments, each within the moist and the dry, to see how the tires deal with totally different situations, permitting for a variety of efficiency metrics to measure in opposition to one another.  The channel ran all seven tires, listed under, by way of moist dealing with, moist braking, dry dealing with, dry braking, aquaplaning, consolation and noise, and rolling resistance assessments.

The P Zero is the latest tire on this take a look at, with its extra superior compound expertise placing up glorious ends in nearly each measurement. It was the very best within the moist braking take a look at, and second-best within the moist dealing with lap, simply behind the Bridgestone. The Pirelli was quickest general within the dry, and second quickest to cease within the dry braking take a look at. It was additionally one of many quieter and extra comfy tires out of the seven examined:

So the Pirelli takes the general win, adopted by the Continental in second and the Michelin in third. Host Jonathan Benson is fast to level out that the highest 4 tires have been all extraordinarily shut in efficiency, and also you seemingly would not have the ability to sense the nuanced variations in case you did not drive them again to again. Between them, there aren’t any unhealthy decisions.

One query stays: How does the Pirelli P Zero PZ5 stack up in opposition to Michelin’s latest tire, the Pilot Sport S 5? A head-to-head take a look at is so as.