Dry: Soft and friendly, tidy when hustled. 3rd fasted dry lap time.
Wet: Smooth and flowing, very predictable in its responses. 3rd fastest lap time.
Snow: Mid pack snow performance but stable.
The Continental is objectively the best overall, which it combined with solid results to win the test.
Total: 456.3
Dry
94.1
Wet
96.6
Snow
98
Subjective
77.1
Overall
90.5
Dry: Subjectively the best winter tyre in the dry. 9th fastest lap time.
Wet: A winter tyre that feels truly precise in the wet. Fastest wet lap time.
Snow: Slightly better than the Conti in the snow, still trails the Goodyear and Dunlop winters.
Best on-road feel and consistently good in the tests gives the Michelin Alpin A4 a strong second.
Total: 456.8
Dry
92.1
Wet
95.6
Snow
95.2
Subjective
83.5
Overall
90.4
Dry: Soft and lazy feel. Slowest dry lap time.
Wet: Best subjective score in the wet, 2nd fastest lap time.
Snow: Strong performance finishing 3rd in the snow lap.
Best in the wet.
Total: 453.2
Dry
92.1
Wet
96.9
Snow
94.2
Subjective
79.9
Overall
90.1
Dry: Decent front end feel, lacks bite on the brakes. 7th Fastest dry lap time.
Wet: Benign nature and good low speed agility, 5th fastest wet lap time.
Snow: Best winter tyre in the snow.
Total: 451.4
Dry
92.3
Wet
94.3
Snow
99.6
Subjective
75.7
Overall
89.5
Dry: Most positive front end after the summer tyre. 2nd fastest dry lap time.
Wet: A little tail happy but strong front end and lots of steering feel. 7th fastest wet lap.
Snow: Surprisingly strong in the snow with the quickest lap time! 6th in the slalom.
Total: 447.6
Dry
94.3
Wet
91.6
Snow
92
Subjective
80.7
Overall
89
Dry: Good time but soft turn in. 5th fastest dry lap time.
Wet: Soft and friendly feel, happy turning. 6th fastest laptime.
Snow: Best in snow slalom.
Extremely strong in the dry and snow (pre-production tyre used)
Total: 443.1
Dry
93
Wet
94.3
Snow
96.3
Subjective
71.6
Overall
87.9
Dry: Strong on the brakes, stable direction change. 6th fastest dry lap time.
Wet: Strong wet grip, 4th fastest wet lap.
Snow: 7th in both the snow slalom and laptimes, above the dedicated winter SV2.
Total: 442
Dry
93.2
Wet
94.5
Snow
92.4
Subjective
74.1
Overall
87.8
Dry: Surprisingly good in the dry, 6th fastest lap time.
Wet: Oily, vaque, loads of lock needed, hard to tell when the wheels are locked. 9th fastest wet lap time.
Snow: Worst winter tyre on test, 3 seconds a lap slower than the all season Hankook.
Total: 413.3
Dry
92.6
Wet
86.9
Snow
85.5
Subjective
65.4
Overall
82.9
Dry: Strong on the brakes, stable direction change. 4th fastest dry lap time.
Wet: Reluctant to turn in, little traction, jumps sideways under power, sloppy. Slowest wet lap time.
Snow: Extremely poor snow performance, nearly 9 seconds slower than the next best tyre.
Total: 405.5
Dry
92.6
Wet
88.5
Snow
73.8
Subjective
69.8
Overall
80.8
Dry: Clear leader in the dry by over 3 seconds a (115 second) lap. Different league subjectively. Extremely precise compared to winter tyres.
Wet: Marginally preferred the feel to the winter version, only 8th fastest wet lap time.
Snow: Couldn't even get to the start line for the snow handling!
Total: 311.1
Dry
100
Wet
90.9
Snow
-36.1
Subjective
94.8
Overall
61.5
Isn't 456.8 bigger than 456.3? So shouldn't the Michelin be ahead of the Continental? Did the Continental manufacturer provide the testing magazine with the test facilities? This would be a conflict of interests in my book?
The Michelin is ahead on raw points, but the test was weighted so snow performance took a bigger percentage of the overall result.
Yes the test was at Contis tracks, it's not unusual for tyre manufacturers to host tests though.