Pirelli has launched a brand new model of its final efficiency tire. Known as the P Zero Trofeo RS, it debuts as authentic tools on the Pagani Utopia supercar.

The P Zero Trofeo RS is an evolution of the P Zero Trofeo R, based on a Pirelli press launch. However the place that that tire was supposed for aftermarket fitment, the Trofeo RS is designed to be used as authentic tools from the manufacturing facility. Pagani was the primary automaker to request it.

Pirelli P Zero Trofeo RS tire

The brand new tire incorporates a multi-compound tread that may be tailor-made to particular purposes. For the Utopia, engineers needed to bake in sufficient functionality for monitor classes with out compromising on-road usability. This was achieved partly by giving the rear tires a extra “performance-focused” compound, based on Pirelli.

Pirelli engineers additionally used simulations to evaluate totally different tire profiles and make contact with patches earlier than constructing any bodily prototypes, testing a lot of attainable designs extra rapidly.

Pagani Utopia

The tire has a treadwear score of 180, a traction score of AA, and an A temperature score. Whereas these rankings are decided by the automaker as an alternative of an trade commonplace, a 180 treadwear score signifies the tire might be good for greater than just some thousand miles—offered these miles aren’t all on the monitor.

Pirelli will provide the P Zero Trofeo RS to different automakers, and as an aftermarket possibility. The P Zero Trofeo R may also stay in manufacturing.

The Utopia was unveiled in 2022 because the successor to the Pagani Huayra, making it solely the third new mannequin in Pagani’s 25-year historical past. Following Pagani custom, it is powered by an AMG-sourced V-12, on this case a twin-turbo 6.0-liter engine producing 852 hp and 811 lb-ft of torque. Pagani additionally claims a 2,822-pound dry curb weight, because of a carbon-titanium monocoque in a form that is recognizably Pagani, however incorporating new options similar to energetic aerodynamic gadgets.