BF Goodrich tyres in the Dakar

[Andrew Prince]

Scroll most of the way down the page to see the tyres being used. They have an "All Terrain+" tyre that the main prototype cars seem to be using. Some of the more production car-based prototypes like the Bowler are using KM2s - I would have thought that the KM2s didn't have a high enough speed rating but maybe that doesn't matter in a race situation? Some cars using the good old standard AT too!
Interesting tyre size too - 245/80/16. Just a tiny bit smaller than a 265/75 height-wise.

http://dakar.bfgoodrich.com/en

 

[Gary Stockton]

Lots of Toyotas to follow - even a desert prototype RAV. I see the husband and wife team (the Favre couple) are back in their 105 - they did pretty well last year IIRC

 

[Lorin]

The Toyota Dakar team ran Cooper tyres in 2010 and 2011, and are again in 2012 http://www.coopertire.co.uk/4x4-rallies-2012

Toyo tyres are running two Hummers in the 2012 Dakar http://toyotires.com/dakar-rally-blog and have just won the latest stage http://www.toyo.co.uk/news/item/id/7596

Bowlers were originally on Kumho tyres.

Maxxis supply tyres for buggies

 

[Gary Stockton]

Hmm - Cooper replacing the STTs with ST MAXX tyres. Interesting to see which tyres perform and which don't - are any tyre stats available I wonder?

 

[Andrew Prince]

The Toyota Dakar team ran Cooper tyres in 2010 and 2011, and are again in 2012

Chris will be happy to see the 155 is running the Discoverer ST (presumably Maxx?).

The factory 200s are running BFG KM2s, according to the pictures... The private 200s also seem to be running KM2s.
There's even a (KDJ)120 entered - hope he had his injectors done before he left

Sad to see no 80s seem to be entered

EDIT: Only saw Gary's post after I posted.