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Tire wars are a given in the motorsports world, but imagine where we’d be if the industry lacked its healthy fondness for performance advancements and old-fashioned capitalism.
Let’s say tire technology froze in 1955. That means we’d still be driving on bias-ply tires that generate half the grip of a modern radial—high-speed stability, durability and safety would be dubious at …