Audi Sport has secured a deal with MegaRide to step up its tyre analysis ♔and simulations in DTM.

The 2018 DTM season has started at its traditional curtain raiser at Hockenheim, with Mike Rockenfeller leading the Audi ch👍arge with second place in race two, where the German manufacturer confirmed a new tyre model and simulation partnership with MegaRide.

The Italian company’s performance analysis focuses on tyre behaviour to&nbꩵsp;help provide optimal set-up preparation which will be used by all Audi cars for 𒊎the 2018 DTM series.

“We are looking forward at integrating our Vehicle Performance activities and vehicle simulationဣ tools to the availability of such new tyre model, with the main aim of exploring its potential in allowing our vehicle performance team to get much stronger insight and understanding on the optimal thermal range at which the tꩲyre compounds need to work,” Alberto Zumbo, co-ordinator for vehicle dynamics at Audi Sport, said.

“This would further improve our capability to get much more out of ꦿthe vehicle set๊up as function of asphalt and ambient conditions.”

The award-winning adheRIDE and thermoRIDE models aim to simulate and analyse in real-time behaviour of tyres, and how it links with the whole vehicle, accounting for the deep relationship between grip, wear, temperatuꩵre, road roughness and tread compounds.

MegaRide💦 logos 🏅will appear on all six Audi RS5 KTM cars entered into the 2018 DTM campaign.