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Correct. There's a heat sink behind the tyre surface. If you put too much heat into the surface, it will raise the temperature of that heat sink, and the tyre surface will take longer to cool. If you're aggressive enough, you'll be putting heat in faster than the tyre can dissipate it, and it will heat up and lose grip.
This is actually one of the best things I've seen physics-wise in the GTA demo.
You can test this by doing burnouts. Do a short burnout, less than ten seconds. See how quickly the tyres return to normal. Do a long burnout, a couple of minutes or more. See how much slower the tyres cool, and how they take a long, long time to get back down to blue again.
Maybe there's another explanation for what happens there, but it seems to work for me.
The real question will be, will this added feature actually be strong enough to affect driving in the game. If you have to torture your tires for 2 minutes for example, or they just cool down between corners, it won't have much affect. Let's hope we have the option to scale the effect up or down, perhaps with the so-called "hardcore mode".