Originally Posted by
RecceDG
No, he isn't.
F1 tyre guys - back when they had multiple brands - would engineer their tyres so the rubber left on the road was sticky to their brand but slippery to the other brand.
Except the subject was not road-tire interaction but tire deformation, and the application was bicycles not cars. For bicycles, this is purely a function of the inflation pressure not the construction of the casing (or the gas used to fill the tire, within reason). So to introduce tread compounds into the discussion is either a joke or a total misreading of the governing physics.