Pirelli Brings Tricolore Diablo Superbike Tires at Monza

Celebrating 150 years of Italian unification, tire manufacturer Pirelli decided to mark the occasion with a set of special rubbers. Specifically, the Diablo Superbike qualifying tires used during the Superpole sessions at this past weekend’s race have featured three stripes coloured green, white and red along with personalized sidewall labels with the words “150th Italy”.

The personalized sidewall labels are an optional feature of Pirelli’s Rosso Generation, applicable to the WSBK technology-filled tires such as the Diablo Rosso Corsa and more recently introduced Diablo Rosso II.

These stripes and tire labels will be used to identify the Diablo Superbike qualifiers, new for 2011 and also for the Monza racetrack, from the available race tire solutions.

“The first three races of the 2011 season left many obstacles for our tyre development, namely the humidity in Australia and unfavorably cold conditions in England. Pirelli worked hard to made available new solutions through its high-level tyre development which parallels the competition environment of the World Championship,” said Pirelli Moto’s Racing Director, Giorgio Barbier.

“Whether colouring a qualifying tyre or introduce new performance compounds, our goal is always to make for more thrilling and faster racing, demonstrated through overall race time, new lap records and most importantly through reliability of our Diablo Superbike tyres on a wide variety of front-running machines. Monza is known worldwide as a circuit of extremes, high heat, fast braking, quick transitions and high speed turns, and the SBK and SSP riders of the World Championship will be able make the most of the excellent performance of our tyres have unique characteristics,” Barbier added.