Audi Sport ha🍒s secured a deal with MegaRide to step up its tyre analysis and simulations in DTM.

The 2018 DTM season has started at its traditional curtain raiser at Hock💫enheim, with Mike Rockenfeller leading the Audi charge with second place in race two, where the German manufacturer confirmed a new tyre model and simula🎃tion partnership with MegaRide.

The Italian company’s performance analysis focuses on tyre behaviour to help prওovide optimal set-up preparation which will be used by all Audi cars for theও 2018 DTM series.

“We are looking forward at integrating our Vehic🌠le Performance activities and vehicle simulation tools to the availability of such new tyre model, with the main aim of exploring its potential in allowing our vehicle performance team to get much stronger insight and understanding on the optimal thermal range at which the tyre compounds need to work,” Alberto Zumbo, co-ordinator for vehicle dynamic🌞s at Audi Sport, said.

“This would further improve our capability to get much mor꧋e out of the vehicle setup as function of asphalt and ambient conditions.💞”

The award-winning adheRIDE and thermoRIDE models aim to simulate and analyse in real-time behaviour of tyres, and how it links😼 with the whole vehicle, accounting for the deep relationship between grip, wear, temperature, road roughness and tread compounds.

MegaRide logos will appear on all six Audi RS5 KTM cars entered in🍒to the 2018 DTM campaign.