2015 MSA License & blue book

[OliW]

Trouble is, road going classes will soon be on 1A tyres instead of sticky rubber.

[andrew mckay]

Yes. And  there's me mr low carbon never flying, working from home and I can't even do a few miles on  a G rated tyre. So few cars must use them it hardy seems worth worrying about them.

[Gill E]

Holy Moly 250bhp on list 1As

[The Headmaster]

Calm down Calm down - it doesn't say anything of the sort.

It simply says list 1B tyres are changing and will become harder - probably more like the track day tyres we all started on A032's or 48s etc.

There will be a new listing/class for List 1C which will be for tyres we currently use - but otherwise the cars will be road going.

Then we will see how long the list 1C tyres actually continue to be made for - which is not an MSA or EU  issue.

We had better hope the rest of the world continue to want sticky rubber 

[andrew mckay]

Manufacturers would still make sticky tyres If there was a market but the G rated compounds have been removed as a result of the EU directive on efficiency and noise. 

[robmar]

i think I might have to agree with Mr Rogers*grumpy*

rob

[CaterBram]

Not sure if anyone else has noticed this in the latest MSA Email.

 

Permitted tyres
In the 2015 MSA Yearbook, Section (L) Permitted Tyres, many of the tyres listed in List 1B are marked with an asterisk to indicate future withdrawal from the list.

To clarify, this is because there are some demanding criteria being introduced for tyres to be E-marked, covering areas such as road noise, durability and wet surface performance etc. The tyre manufacturers are well aware that many of their existing “sports performance tyres” will not meet these criteria, so manufacture will cease over the next few months.