Hutchinson first reached out to me a few years ago, during my tenure as a product manager, to offer samples of the then-new Made in France tyres, but at the time, I really only had eyes for WTB. Honestly, Hutchinson wasn’t really on my radar at all, and they surprised me. For the next two years, my Sonder was shod with both the Tourareg, which happens to be one of our best gravel tyres, and the Tundra.
However, they both have similar issues. While they perform well overall, the HardSkin casing suffers from high rolling resistance and lacks compliance. So I wanted to know, by adding ‘Race’ to the title, have Hutchinson managed to reduce rolling resistance? And ultimately mix it with the big names in the gravel tyre arms race?
