PIRELLI DIABLO ROSSO CORSA II
“WUNDAS”, AS Krazy Kat would say, “neva seize.” Can there really be set of tyres that’s equally good on road and track?
My choice of new tyres has always followed the ‘win on Sunday, buy on Monday’ philosophy, so the Phantom, the Mandrake, the Corsa and even the Scorpion have been my go-tos, and have saved my bacon over many decades. Over the years, one notable thing about the progression of tyre technology has been that when once the tyre was the limiting factor for the rider, it is now the rider who isn’t - in most cases, anyway - as good as the tyre.
The names have changed, too, and read a bit like a Harley-Davidson model designation. A case in point is Pirelli’s quadruple banger Diablo Rosso Corsa II (how about we agree on DRC II to keep it simple?), but while the name is longwinded the tyre’s brief
