The Michelin Pilot Sport 4 is a tyre with almost no weaknesses, it has excellent grip in all conditions, good aquaplaning resistance, and a low noise. The only negative is that it's not the most responsive of tyres during the dry handling test.

Positive: Excellent rounded tyre with almost no weakness, excellent grip in the dry and wet, short braking distances and safe balance.
Negative: Not the most sporty feeling of the UHP tyres.

The Goodyear Eagle F1 Asymmetric 5 is a tyre with almost no weaknesses, it has excellent grip in the dry and wet, sporty handling, excellent aquaplaning resistance and low rolling resistance.

Positive: Excellent rounded tyre with almost no weakness, sporty handling in the dry and wet, very short wet braking, very high aquaplaning resistance.
Negative: Average external noise.

The Michelin Pilot Sport 4S is an extremely rounded UUHP tyre, offering the most complete blend of qualities. The trade off for all these qualities seems to be in dry handling, where it doesn't feel the most sporty of tyres.

Positive: Extremely rounded UUHP tyre with the shortest dry braking distances, excellent aquaplaning resistance, good levels of comfort and lowest rolling resistance of the UUHP tyres.
Negative: Not as dynamic handling as the other two UUHP tyres in this test.

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.

The Goodyear Eagle F1 SuperSport was the master of the dry handling lap, offering the best steering response and good feedback. Unfortunately in this 18" size, the F1SS didn't has as much wet performance as tested in other sizes.

Positive: Truly a road tyre you can use on track, excellent dynamic steering with quick reactions and good feedback, and very good heat resistance for a road tyre.
Negative: Oversteer wet handling balance, long wet braking distances, high external pass by noise, high rolling resistance.

The new specification Hankook Ventus S1 Evo3 is the wet braking master, stopping the car significantly shorter than any other tyre on test. This braking advantage does seem to have come at the slight expense of handling, with the tyre slower to react and understeer balance in the dry and wet.

Positive: Shortest wet braking distance, very short dry braking, safe wet handling balance, low rolling resistance.
Negative: Understeer balance in the dry, average aquaplaning performance.

The Pirelli P Zero PZ4 is a rare tyre that seems to blend good grip in the dry and wet, sporty handling, low rolling resistance and good levels of comfort. IF this tyre had slightly better aquaplaning resistance it would have been in the top group.

Positive: Dynamic handling with an excellent performance in the dry and wet, low levels of noise.
Negative: Average aquaplaning performance.

The Continental PremiumContact 6 further cements the theory that it should have been named the SportContact 6, with the fastest dry handling lap, best in category steering response and precision, and short dry braking. Sadly, this comes at the expense of NVH.

Positive: Sporty dry handling with the fastest dry lap time, short dry braking, excellent aquaplaning resistance.
Negative: Highest pass by noise on test, average wet handling lap time.

In this 18" size, the FK510 is a sporty tyre with good dry and wet handling, short wet braking and good aquaplaning resistance.

Positive: Sporty dry and wet handling, short wet braking distances, good aquaplaning resistance, good value.
Negative: Average dry braking, high pass by noise.

The new GT Radial SportActive 2 is a good improvement over the SportActive, with very high aquaplaning resistance, very low noise, and good handling in the dry and wet. Unfortunately the tyre has extended wet braking distances.

Positive: Best straight and curved aquaplaning, lowest noise on test, stable wet handling with good levels of grip, sporty handling in the dry, low rolling resistance.
Negative: Long wet braking, average grip in the dry.

The Nokian PowerProof had a refined ride, but didn't perform up to expectations in the grip tests.

Positive: Good levels of comfort, low rolling resistance.
Negative: Long wet braking distances, poor aquaplaning resistance.

The new Vredestein Ultrac Vorti+ had extremely stable dry handling times with good steering and very good heat resistance. Sadly that seemed to hamper it in the wet, where it couldn't match the best on test.

Positive: Stable dry handling with good steering feel and low wear on track.
Negative: Long wet braking distances, low grip in wet handling, highest rolling resistance on test.

The Avon ZV7 is a well priced tyre with low noise levels, however it couldn't match the group in the grip tests.

Positive: Low rolling resistance, quiet external noise, well priced.
Negative: Long wet and dry braking, low grip in the handling tests.

The Altenzo SportComforter+ is the first time we've seen Altenzo in a test which should be commended. It is by far the cheapest tyre on test, and while it couldn't match the rest of the tyres in the grip test, it gives Altenzo a base of very low fuel use and low noise to build on and improve in the future.

Positive: Lowest rolling resistance on test, quiet pass by noise, low purchase price.
Negative: Extremely long wet and dry braking, lowest grip in handling tests with understeer balance, weak aquaplaning resistance.