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Originally Posted by Tag
It's not ideal, but it's totally doable. Summer tires stop in a shorter distance in the cold than either all-seasons or winter tires so long as the road is dry. Sounds counteractive, but there are actual real world tests that actually demonstrate this. Summer tires however are dangerous in the cold if the roads are wet or have any snow on them, in that instance you should not drive the car at all.
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Exactly, look at the Sportauto M2Comp laptime @ Hockenheim GP, PSS but an outside temp of just 1 degrees Celsius(zero is freezing temp) almost freezing, when a PSS is warm it's super grippy on dry roads.
Conti TS860 are generally seen|(overhere, German tests fwiw, because Conti is German lol) as the 'best' overal wintertyres (just like Alpins)
But on a dry winter road nothing beats a PSS in this case.
There's a lot of concessions with wintertyres: braking distance/traction on dry roads/sloppy road/steering feel, TS860 has it all(vs PSS)
Cheers
Robin