Achilles ATR Sport 2 Tire Review

High performance summer tires are meant for high speed performance. They prevent heat build-up on the tire’s structure, while maintaining the tire’s excellent road gripping capability and power. This allows them to perform at their utmost high speed capability.

Quick Review

• Season: Summer
• Type: High Performance
• Car Type: Passenger
• Run Flat: NO
• In Stock: Yes (Check Price)

Priority Tire offers a wide range of different high performance summer tires for passenger and performance vehicles. One such tire is the Achilles ATR Sport 2 model, which provides superb summer traction, great high speed controllability and even some degree of damage resistance. This model is a great choice for drivers looking for a budget friendly high performance tire, which does not sacrifice on its driving safety and performance to lower its price.

Summer Weather Performance

Summer tires ensure the tire’s exceptional traction in dry and wet weather conditions. They utilize their tread design and optimal compound to ensure constant traction. However, they are not meant to be used in colder temperatures and winter conditions.

The ATR Sport 2 was manufactured with a directional tread pattern from a summer weather compound that increases the model’s road gripping capability in summer conditions. They improve the tire’s grip on the road surface in dry and wet conditions, which enables the tire to securely perform in warmer weather. 

The directional tread design and the tire compound manage to prevent heat build-up during the tire’s high speed performance, which eases the driving pressure off its structure, and enhances the tire’s overall traction. In this manner, the tire guarantees a secure summer weather high speed performance and road grip.

The tread pattern helps the ATR Sport 2 prevent hydroplaning. Hydroplaning is a dangerous road hazard which cuts off the tire’s road contact with the water located on the road surface.This causes the vehicle to skid and the driver to lose control over it. The tire’s four wide circumferential grooves channel water away from the tire’s footprint. This enhances the wet weather traction and keeps the tire’s road contact at all times. As a result, the tire is capable of effectively resisting hydroplaning in such situations.

You can learn more about hydroplaning by reading the post we wrote about it. It is a detailed - yet easy to digest - insight into hydroplaning (aquaplaning), why it occurs and how to prevent it.

Controllability and Handling

A tire’s controllability is one of its most important aspects. It determines its response to the driver’s instructions and how well the tires can be handled in different conditions. The faster response and greater stability ensure a secure performance, which is especially important with high performance tire models.

The ATR Sport 2 features a directional tread pattern, which sports a continuous solid center rib, interlocking middle and stabilized shoulder tread blocks. These tread elements manage to maintain the tire’s road contact at all times, which boosts the steering responsiveness and the driving stability. In other words, the model’s continuous center rib improves the steering, which becomes faster and more precise in its response to the driver’s instructions. 

The tread’s middle interlocking tread blocks, located on each side of the center rib, upgrade the structure’s stability against the driving pressure affecting the model, increasing the driving security.

The model’s tread design also helps enhance its cornering and maneuvering capability. The special directional tread pattern’s interlocking tread blocks and stable shoulder block pattern work together to ensure a safer cornering. They keep the tire’s road contact and heighten the number of biting edges gripping the road surface in such situations. This greatly boosts the maneuvering ability as the tire keeps a firm and consistent grip on the road surface, guaranteeing a dependable performance.

Damage Prevention

Damage to the tread area and the vehicle’s rims can be dangerous. Manufacturers strive to design models that manage to resist punctures and protect the rims during the drive. In this manner, the tire can promote a safer performance.

The ATR Sport 2 was designed with a directional tread pattern and the Matric Technology was used in its manufacture. They work together to enhance the tread’s self-cleaning capability. This enables the model to eliminate mud and snow and eject rocks that get stuck between the tread elements. The maintained clean footprint improves the tire’s constant road contact and actively resists stone retention from harming the tire’s casing by drilling rocks into it.

The model was also made with an optimized sidewall design. These reinforced sidewalls maintain the tire’s optimal shape under the driving pressure, preventing its deformation during its high speed performance. They also successfully protect the rims from accidental curb and other damage that may harm it. This increases the driving safety significantly, even at high speed driving.