Never a tyre change over 7,000 kilometers on asphalt, sand, dirt, and stones: this is the test sustained by a Porsche 911 Dakar equipped with Pirelli Scorpion All Terrain Plus tyres homologated for the model. The car, driven by its owner, started from the Porsche Zentrum Inntal in Raubling (Rosenheim), south-east of Munich in Germany, to reach Dakar, the capital of Senegal, following the route of the Africa Eco Race. A rally that in 12 stages connected Nador in Morocco to the Pink Lake of Dakar crossing Mauritania and Senegal, following the trail of the original Paris-Dakar. An exceptional result for the Pirelli Scorpion All Terrain Plus tyres, which, despite being homologated for street use, faced the course of the rally alongside racing cars, bringing the car safely to the finish line.
7000 KILOMETRES, ONE SET OF TYRES
The aficionado-owner of his 911 Dakar - an amateur, not a professional driver - drove first on the highways of Europe, then on semi-asphalted roads, dirt, sand and very rough rocky bottoms, passing from the winter of the Alps to the typical climatic swings of the desert, with variations of up to 30 degrees Celsius in 12 hours. An 18-day feat and 7,000 kilometers of driving, characterized by very diverse conditions, including about 1,000 kilometers of rocky dirt roads in the desert. "A unique adventure, which would have certainly been very complicated without such valid tyres. They always behaved exceptionally even in very different conditions," said the Porsche Zentrum Inntal from where the expedition started.
SCORPION ALL TERRAIN PLUS, THE FIRST OFFROAD TYRE FOR A PORSCHE 911
The Pirelli Scorpion All Terrain Plus was developed as original equipment for the Porsche 911 Dakar precisely to support the high performance typical of a 911 and allow it at the same time to tackle the most difficult off-road conditions. Pirelli combined these characteristics into a single tyre thanks to the introduction of a particular family of compounds and a design that optimized the ground contact of the product and strengthened its structure.
