Contact Patch = {Noun} The only connection between the road and a vehicle Where the rubber meets the road. All forces acting on a vehicle at some point affect what is happening at the contact patch. Tyres are the connection between your car and the road, and getting the best out of them is one of the most important aspects of going racing. Every individual tyre can be entered into the system, assigned a custom name and identified by its barcode. Utilising an Event Schedule every run a vehicle completes can have the tyres used logged. Tyre Pressure and temperatures can be entered for any point on a run allowing for workload and distance calculations as well as Optimum Cold Tyre Pressure. The status of a tyre, whether it's currently mounted on a rim, any comments about it plus all usage history is available at the click of a button making Tyre Management Easy.