What does tire handling mean?

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Hello, tire handling means how the tires affect your car’s response to steering and its behavior through corners or changes of direction. It covers steering precision, cornering grip, stability and how controllable the car feels near the limit of grip. Tests assess behavior on dry and wet roads separately. A handling assessment may combine timed laps with the test driver’s subjective judgment of the car’s behavior. Braking distance and resistance to hydroplaning are assessed separately, so a handling score is only part of the picture. When reading a tire test, I would check the dry and wet assessments and the driver’s comments alongside the braking and hydroplaning results.