Comparison: Bridgestone Potenza S001 vs. Bridgestone Potenza Sport (2026)
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Potenza Sport is the modern upgrade; S001 is a legacy tyre struggling on wet roads.
Within Bridgestone's summer performance range, the Bridgestone Potenza S001 and the Bridgestone Potenza Sport both carry the Potenza name — Bridgestone's heritage performance sub-brand — but they represent very different eras and very different approaches to what a sporting tyre should be. The S001 is an older design that found its way onto a number of performance cars as original equipment, built around a firm compound that prioritised dry road feel. The Potenza Sport is Bridgestone's current flagship performance offering, substantially more modern and more complete, earning an 87/100 rating in our assessments while the S001 goes essentially unrated due to its age. If you are choosing between them today, the context matters enormously.
Potenza S001
Potenza Sport
These tyres were not tested together. The comparison below is inferred from separate tests by normalizing both tyres against 10 shared benchmark tyres, so treat it as an estimate.
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