Just thought that the tyre guru's her might be interestedin this peice about the Olympic track surface
http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-18735617
BTW there is another tyre parallel in soccer boots beleive it or not!
I once met the guy who developed the Nike Predator soccer boot which has a special upper surface to help aim the ball precisley when kicked .It turned out that some of the contact patch stabilty problems in designing th Predator boot were a bit similar to the tyre patch distortion under load problms
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traction hook up on track - London 2012 style
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mariner
, Jul 23 2012 07:55
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