In Barcelona, the WorldSBK riders will have a soft SC0 solution available for the front for the first time in history
The Circuit of Barcelona-Catalunya will host the fourth round of the FIM Superbike World Championship over the weekend and will be the stage for an important debut for Pirelli: for the first time ever, the Italian tyre company has developed a solution in soft compound SC0 for the front wheel that can be used during the race weekend.
Up to now, the DIABLO Superbike had never had a SC0 compound in the range of front tyres but now Pirelli has decided to introduce and develop it during the season, to then make it a standard solution next year. The comparisons, started in Assen, between the standard SCX rear and the B0800 development SCX rear, and, in the WorldSSP class, between the current 120/70 size front and the larger 125/70 already used in WorldSBK will continue in Barcelona.
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Further details on the tyre allocation are available in the technical data sheets attached to this press release.
An SC0 to complete the new front range
“In Barcelona we will witness what, in its way, can be considered a historic debut in these 20 years of Pirelli in Superbike: for the first time ever, the WorldSBK riders will have a DIABLO Superbike in the soft SC0 compound available at the front. After expanding the range in the past seasons with the introduction of rear solutions in soft compounds, such as the SCX in 2020 and the SCQ in 2022, and having worked on the new front SC1 and SC2, we now decided it was time to complete the range also working on a front in soft SC0 compound with the aim to balance the high level of grip offered by the new soft solutions introduced for the rear wheel. The riders have already had the opportunity to test this new front solution, in specification B1148, in the winter tests and in those held in Barcelona at the end of March but this will be the first time ever that they will have it available in a race weekend. The goal, in line with our philosophy of making the tyres used in the World Superbike available to all motorcyclists, is to develop this SC0 during the season and then make it a standard solution, therefore purchasable on the market, in 2024”.
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