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By Todd Silvey May 22, 2018Over the past three decades, Mickey Thompson Tires and Wheels has taken a proactive approach in broadening their racing tire lines. They say necessity is the mother of all invention, but we learned an additional adage during our conversation with Senior Product Development Manager, Jason Moulton.

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Jason Moulton describes how they explain radial drag tire technology compared to the traditional bias-ply slick: "The bracket radial tire absorbs very little power in the sidewall compared to the standard bias-ply slick. The radial design can be slightly more tricky at the launch, but that sidewall design can be more consistent with less growth at the top end."“When it comes to some of the things we do in racing, it’s not just from necessity; it’s more about our goals to take new ideas and develop them into improved models or even entirely new tire lines,” Moulton explains. “Several of us, including myself, are drag racers. We are driven by passion for the creation or improvement of every racing tire line.”Similar to a racer’s quest to go faster, certainly, the racing tire business is a matter of staying on top of that performance. You would not have believed a few years ago that a set of P315/60R-15 ET Street Radial Pro tires with a mere 29.9-inch diameter and 11.4-inches of contact width would propel Mark Micke’s Radial vs. World Malibu to his record of 3.62 elapsed time at 221 mph in the eighth-mile.