The Bridgestone Potenza Sport excels as the test winner, showcasing top-tier performance on wet and dry roads. It's adept at handling, offering superb grip and ensuring short braking distances, particularly in wet conditions, which bolsters safety. The tire stands out for its resistance to hydroplaning, adding to its dependable characteristics. Additionally, it's noted for its fuel efficiency due to its low rolling resistance, paired with an attractive price point. The only slight downside is its noise, which, despite being a bit higher, doesn't significantly detract from its overall exceptional performance.

The Bridgestone Potenza Sport tire is celebrated for its exceptional quality, delivering impressive driving dynamics. It excels not only on standard roads but also in off-road conditions, offering a versatile performance. The tire is noted for its accurate steering response, which contributes to a more controlled driving experience. It also stands out for its ability to stop quickly in both wet and dry conditions, an attribute that enhances safety and reliability.

The Bridgestone Potenza Sport showcased its prowess in the Autobild Sportscars summer tire test, leading in dry braking and delivering strong performances in wet handling and the wet circle test. Despite a lesser showing in straight hydroplaning and a higher noise level, the tire's dynamic handling, grip on wet surfaces, and short braking distances underscore its balanced and performance-oriented design. However, notable wear and tear after extended dry track use slightly mar its otherwise impressive profile.

Positive: Good handling on wet roads. Safe and responsive behavior on dry roads.
Negative: Dry braking, highest rolling resistance in the test.

Positive: Wet handling. Wet braking. Dry braking.
Negative: Environment.

Positive: New high performance tire with excellent wet and dry handling, good balance, precise steering with good feedback, short braking distances in wet and dry, hydroplaning resistance.
Negative: Increased rolling resistance, average comfort.

Bridgestone delivers superior wet grip, performance and safety in braking, handling and driving stability. The tire responds predictably to changes in load at the limit, but requires active steering correction. Flawless driving performance helps the Bridgestone lap faster than the Continental. In addition, Potenza Sport has the highest rolling resistance, which affects fuel consumption and points.

A sports tire with packed with safety features. It is slightly inferior to its rivals in terms of straight and lateral hydroplaning resistance, environment performance, and noise/ride comfort, but there are no obvious issues that you cannot put up with.

This Bridgestone model ensures excellent handling response on wet pavement, and has a very high rolling resistance; on dry pavement, and has good handling feedback and crisp steering response, for which, obviously, the technologists sacrificed some of the ride comfort.

Excellent handling response and very short braking distance in any conditions. Good hydroplaning resistance. High rolling resistance.

Good hydroplaning resistance. Good handling performance and crisp steering response. Relatively long braking distance on wet pavement. Good.

Good handling and short braking distances on dry and wet surfaces. Precise steering response. Good ride comfort. Increased rolling resistance. Increased noise.

Outstanding cornering stability on wet and dry pavement. Surprisingly good aquaplaning resistance. Fast and precise response to the driver’s actions. Average dry and wet braking performance. Very good.

Strong traction and good handling response on wet and dry pavement. Low aquaplaning resistance. High noise emission. Low riding comfort. Very high rolling resistance. Recommended.

Good handling response and a short stopping distance on wet and dry pavement alike. Excellent lateral stability in the wet. Good hydroplaning resistance. Poor riding comfort. High noise emission. High rolling resistance.

The new Bridgestone Potenza Sport at times feels like a track tyre for the road. The grip levels are extremely high and when the tyre is warm, the grip incredible. The low starting tread depth makes it difficult in the wet due to high levels of aquaplaning, however the grip is impressive when in contact with the road.

Positive: Sporty handling tyre with excellent steering response and feedback, very quick in the dry and wet with short braking distances.
Negative: Low aquaplaning resistance, oversteer balance in wet handling.

Crisp steering response and well-balanced performance in any conditions. Great handling on dry pavement. Short braking distance on wet and dry pavement. Increased noise.

Positive: Very high grip level on wet and especially on dry roads. Direct steering response and high steering precision in dry handling.
Negative: Somewhat sensitive to load changes in the wet. Increased risk of aquaplaning when cornering. Increased rolling resistance.

New top-class sports tires, excellent handling qualities on wet and dry slopes, precise steering response, good balance, shortest wet and dry braking distances, good aquaplaning properties.
Verdict: exemplary.