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      04-25-2012, 10:05 PM   #6
Alan l.
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I am wondering if Michelin did this strickly to save weight. Saving almost 3lbs per tire is a lot and makes a difference in such a high performance car like a Ferrari.

Maybe the sidewall looks different is because theres less tread on the K1 tire but the overall diameter needs to still stay the same. What they had to do was make the tire bigger with shallower tread depth where as the Normal spec tire is smaller but with deeper tread which is impacting how the sidewall looks.
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