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A rain tyre or wet tyre (spelt tire in American English, commonly shortened to wet) is a special tyre used in motorsport in wet weather as opposed to a slick tyre used in dry conditions. It is very similar in many ways to the tyres found on normal road cars.[1]
Rain tyres are not used in NASCAR, ARCA and INDYCAR sanctioned races held on oval tracks as these races are invariably halted when the track is wet due to safety concerns regarding the large amounts of spray involved reducing visibility, as well as a lack of traction in banked corners at high speeds.
- ^ McFadyen, Peter (2008). Motor Racing at Oulton Park in the 1970s. Veloce Publishing Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84584-164-5.