TREAD TALK - Off-Road Tire Manufacturers Discuss Lessons Learned In Baja

One of the best things to come from off-road racing in Baja is a better tire. Tire manufacturers have taken what they’ve learned from the brutal terrain that combines rock crawling, dry lake beds, and deep silt to design tires that handle all of it at both high and low speeds. SCORE Journal spoke with top off-road tire manufacturers who provided several of their experts to offer insight into the latest technologies and innovations. Among those we talked to are Matt Hanlon, Motorsports Product Engineer at BFGoodrich Tires, the official tire of SCORE International; Wendle Jiang, Senior Engineer - R&D at Chimera Tires; Richard Kelsey, Sales Director at Chimera Tires; and Shean Kleinschuster, VP Engineering and Procurement at Tensor Tires.