Bridgestone

Potenza RE960AS Pole Position

The Potenza RE960AS Pole Position gives premium sports car owners a solid all-season tire and a performance tire wrapped up in a racy looking package! Traction is the key, and exclusive UNI-T AQII technology delivers in both wet and dry-even as the tire wears. Silica and a leading edge sipe add to the wet/dry adaptability. If you want undaunted performance when the weather switches gears, go with the Potenza RE960AS Pole Position.

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  • Model: Potenza RE960AS Pole Position
  • Brand: Bridgestone
  • Vehicle Type: Passenger
  • Tire Type: Performance
  • Segment: Performance All-Season

Features & Benefits

Bridgestone Potenza RE960AS Pole Position tire features and benefits illustration
  • Feature: Steel belt construction
    Benefit: Adds durability and resists punctures
  • Feature: Hard sidewall filler
    Benefit: Helps resist distortion at high speeds and while cornering.
  • Feature: Dual-Layer Tread
    Benefit: Minimizes the effect of wear on wet tire performance by exposing high grip rubber as the tire wears.
  • Feature: O-Bead
    Benefit: Improves uniformity and ride comfort through use of a single continuous strand of cable in the bead construction
  • Feature: 3-D Sipes
    Benefit: Enhance dry performance while maintaining snow, ice and wet traction.
  • Feature: CO-CS (Computer Optimized Component System)
    Benefit: Maximizes tire performance by optimizing the appropriate combination of tread design, casing shape, materials, and construction.
  • Feature: Arc Shape Leading Edge
    Benefit: Enhances snow and dry performance.
  • Feature: All-Season Tread Design
    Benefit: Enhances year-round performance with open-slotted shoulders.
  • Feature: Lateral Grooves
    Benefit: Efficient evacuation and channeling of water that helps reduce hydroplaning and improves wet traction
  • Feature: Directional Tread Pattern
    Benefit: Maximizes both wet and dry performance, as well as other tire characteristics. By specifying that the tread pattern is to be mounted on the vehicle in a single direction only, the many design compromises found in conventional tires which can be mounted in two directions are eliminated. This provides the ability to include a wider variety of specific performance characteristics such as high resistance to hydroplaning in each tire.
  • Feature: Hydro-Evacuation Surface (H.E.S.)
    Benefit: Channels water efficiently away from the tread.
  • Feature: L.L. Carbon (Long Link)
    Benefit: Helps improve tread wear and resist cracking, chipping and tearing through the use of a special long length carbon structure
  • Feature: Spiral Wrap
    Benefit: Encircles the whole tire with a continuous nylon wrap , helping the tire hold its original shape to improve high speed capability.

Specifications

Speed Rating

  • Q
    99
    mph
  • R
    106
    mph
  • S
    112
    mph
  • T
    118
    mph
  • U
    124
    mph
  • H
    130
    mph
  • V
    149
    mph
  • Z
    149+
    mph
  • W
    168
    mph
  • Y
    186
    mph
  • (Y)
    186+
    mph
Detailed Tire Specifications
Available Sizes Speed Rating Load Index Technology Mileage
195/65R15H91UNI-T AQ II40000
205/65R15H94UNI-T AQ II40000
195/60R15H88UNI-T AQ II40000
205/60R15H91UNI-T AQ II40000
215/60R15H94UNI-T AQ II40000
225/60R16W98UNI-T AQ II40000
225/50R17W94UNI-T AQ II40000
215/45R17 XLW91UNI-T AQ II40000

Safety Warning:
Serious injury may result from tire failure due to underinflation/overloading. Follow owner’s manual and tire placard in vehicle.

Tire Technology

UNI-T - Ultimate Tire Technology

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Other Tire Technology

Tire Technology Spiral Wrap Shoulder Strips are continuous nylon wraps used to reinforce the tire. Placed between the steel belts and the tread, it encircles the entire tire. Unlike the conventional wraps and layers, Spiral Wrap does not have a seam, so the tire is reinforced without having an added stress point which could alter tire shape and have a negative effect on tire performance.

Tire Technology C-S-C is a pattern of tread blocks designed for uniform contact pressure, improving dry and wet handling, reducing irregular wear, and resulting in better ride comfort.

Tire Technology Uni-Directional Pattern is a tread pattern design that maximizes both wet and dry performance, as well as other tire characteristics. By specifying that the tread pattern is to be mounted on the vehicle in a single direction only, the many design compromises found in conventional tires which can be mounted in two directions are eliminated. This provides the ability to include a wider variety of specific performance characteristics such as high resistance to hydroplaning in each tire.

Tire Technology Sipes lengthen to improve new performance on wet surfaces and helps maintain wet performance as the tire wears.

Tire Technology This design hasn't always been an exact science. Engineers relied on their experience and various design theories when developing new products. But now, our innovative COCS (Computer Optimized Component System) technology uses a supercomputer to determine the ideal combination of tread design, casing shape, materials, and construction based on consumer benefit criteria. Performing thousands of "what if" calculations and creating incredibly detailed tire simulations, COCS takes the guesswork out of designing tires. COCS makes it possible to create an endless diversity of tire designs to meet the demands of the consumer of today and tomorrow.

Tire Technology EPC Tread Compound is a unique rubber compound that fights the effects of friction-related rubber hardening. Friction-related rubber hardening is one of the reasons tires lose wet-surface performance as they wear.

Tire Technology H-E-S (Hydro Evacuation Surface) reduces the risk of hydroplaning leading to better wet performance.

Tire Technology Dual-Layer Tread was developed to ensure that tires maintain wet performance as they wear. Tires with Dual-Layer Tread have two kinds of rubber in the tread, both containing EPC. As the tire wears, a higher grip layer is exposed. This minimizes the effect of wear on worn wet tire performance and helps maintain more consistent handling. It also helps prevent the increase in noise that tends to occur as the tread wears.

Tire Technology If you can imagine the inefficiency of a rolling egg, you can understand the inefficiency of many tire and rim assemblies which are less than precisely round. Now, O-Bead changes the way the tire interacts with the rim, creating a rounder assembly. The "bead" is a cable inside a tire that helps the tire grip on the rim. On most tires, there are overlapped joints where the ends of the bead meet. O-Bead eliminates the overlapped joints by using a single, continuous strand of cable. This helps eliminate tiny, unwanted gaps between the tire and the rim, and creates a rounder tire assembly, for improved driving on straightaways and handling stability.

Tire Technology EPO integrates the two leading-edge technologies, Dual-Layer Tread and EPC, to help provide excellent performance as the tire wears.

Tire Technology A reinforcing material used in conjunction with carbon black.

Tire Technology Carbon black is a reinforcing material that strengthens rubber. All tire manufacturers use it. But tires with UNI-T technology use L.L. Carbon, an advanced form of carbon black that offers real advantages. Under a microscope, conventional carbon black particles look like bunches of grapes. L.L. Carbon molecules resemble long chains. Think of these as the equivalent of the long steel rods used to reinforce concrete. Because this molecular structure absorbs and spreads road stresses over a larger area, you get a stronger tire better able to resist cracking, chipping, tearing, and excessive wear.