TIRE COMPRISING A TREAD CONTAINING CIRCUMFERENTIAL REINFORCING ELEMENTS IN THE SUBLAYER

A tire (1) comprises two beads (4), two sidewalls (3) connected to the beads and a crown (2) connected to the ends of the two sidewalls, the crown comprising a crown reinforcement (6) and a tread (5) radially outside the crown reinforcement (6), said tread (7) comprising a plurality of tread pattern blocks (71), at least two radially superposed layers: a sublayer (7S) covering the crown reinforcement (6), and a main layer (7P) radially above the crown reinforcement (6), the sublayer comprising a plurality of circumferential reinforcing elements (73) being formed of a rubber compound having greater stiffness than the stiffness of the rubber compound of the rest of the sublayer, the circumferential reinforcing elements (73) extending radially from the radially exterior surface of said crown reinforcement (6) in the direction of the interface between the sublayer (7S) and the main layer (7P), said circumferential reinforcing elements having an axial width which decreases gradually with increasing radial proximity to the outside.