Pirelli: Different rubber for different Series

Stock and tuned bikes find a mirror in the different kinds of tyres, which allow the riders to express their real potential and also the Championships to maintain their peculiar characteristics.

Quantities available for the weekend are defined by SBK rules, as the minimum number of specs required for each category (front and rears). Pirelli is used to bring more than this quantity of specs, in order to receive more information to be translated in new developments.

For the big Superstock class, there will only be one choice of tyre on offer, but that particular tyre compound will change race-to-race, based on previous experience at those circuits. This allows the riders to have the best tyre available and also to use different tyres throughout the season, to help them understand how each particular set of tyres work. Just like the final customer on the street, the choice will come from a range of four DIABLO SUPERCORSA "SC" compounds.

The pilots of Superstock 600 will use the Pirelli DIABLO SUPERCORSA in an SC2 compound all season. This ‘refresh’ for the tyre choice in this particular class is dictated mainly from the will of Pirelli, on one side, to offer the best technical solution possibile, and from the other side it allows the Superstock 600 riders to make a more competitive approach when they graduate to the Supersport category - as they will already have experience of the same type of tyres used in Supersport.