traction hook up on track - London 2012 style

Just thought that the tyre guru's her might be interestedin this peice about the Olympic track surface

http://www.bbc.co.uk...onment-18735617

BTW there is another tyre parallel in soccer boots beleive it or not!

I once met the guy who developed the Nike Predator soccer boot which has a special upper surface to help aim the ball precisley when kicked .It turned out that some of the contact patch stabilty problems in designing th Predator boot were a bit similar to the tyre patch distortion under load problms