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A pneumatic tyre in rotating motion with a constant angular velocity $\Omega$ is assimilated to a torus whose generating circle has a radius $R$. The contact of the tyre with the ground is schematized as an ellipse with semi-major axis $a$. When $(\Omega R/C_0)\ll 1$ and $(a/R)\ll 1$ (where $C_0$ is the velocity of the sound), we show that at the rapid time scale $R/C_0$, the air motion within a torus periodically excited on its surface generates an acoustic wave $h$. A study of this acoustic wave is conducted and shows that the mode associated to...