Vittoria’s Corsa tyres have been round in a single guise or one other for an ideal a few years, whether or not in tubular, or latterly tubeless kind. Now the Italian tyre model has launched a quicker, lighter mannequin that goals particularly at time trials; the brand new Corsa Professional Velocity.
Vittoria claims this new mannequin has a 5% discount in rolling resistance, in addition to a 2% weight saving over the usual Corsa Professional. This brings the vary consistent with that of Continental, the model’s largest competitor, with a race tyre and a TT-specific possibility.
The place have the wattage and grams financial savings been made, and the way a lot will these slippery tyres set you again?
Already a Tour winner
With the ability to chalk up a Tour de France stage win earlier than a product launches is sort of a feat. Add to that the general Tour de France GC from Jonas Vingegaard (not completely on these, however nonetheless), a Belgian Nationwide TT title from Wout van Aert, and a Dutch Nationwide TT title from Jos van Emden and also you’d be hard-pushed to say these haven’t already been ‘race confirmed’.
The Corsa Professional is a fairly prolific tyre, and the brand new Corsa Professional Velocity takes the 320 TPI cotton casing and mates it with an all-new tread. This tread utilises the identical compound because the Corsa Professional, however does away with the parallel traces within the centre, changing them with a wider, completely slick floor. The striations on the shoulders are additionally fewer and additional between; it’s about as slick as Vittoria dared make it by the appears to be like of issues.
To cut back the rolling resistance and the load the Corsa Professional Velocity has accomplished away with the puncture safety belt that options on the usual Corsa Professional. These belts are usually stiffer than the tyre carcass, and so eradicating it would make the tyre extra supple, however finally extra puncture-prone.
The tyres are tubeless prepared, which can properly offset among the decreased puncture safety, however the notable factor is an absence of tubular choices.
Pricing, sizing, and weights
Three widths are on provide, a 24c, a 26c, and a 28c. All sizes will set you again €94.95 per tyre, so there isn’t a noticeable premium over the usual Corsa Professional. The smallest width weighs in at a claimed 225g per tyre, by way of 230g for the 26c mannequin, and a 250g claimed weight for the 28c rounds out the vary.
