Racing Tire Recommendations, Please

[Dan Baldwin]

I ran Hoosier R3S04's (the new ones) at two time trial events last year. First event I ran them at, for the first few laps holy CRAP i've never experienced so much grip! Then after about 3-4 laps they kinda lost some. After three sessions ~15 minutes each, this effect was reduced a bit. Second event I went to, they felt really slippy-slidey, but I turned my best ever time with them. They WENT faster than they FELT. The character was quite different from the old Hoosiers, the car moved around a lot more rather than carving the curves. Still fast though!

[vintageracer]

I heard Hankook will be suppling ZR tires here in the states and have a

heard good things about them - Should also be lite in the old pocket book -

My experience has been

Toyo RA-1- Great life and decent grip - shave them

Kuhmo V700- Great grip - tend to go away - shave them

Hoosier - R3S04 - Great grip and better wear than older R3S03 - down right serious race tire -

[spudz]

For the 15" x 9" wheel I would stick with 245/50/15's and the only road race tire

in that size that I know if is the Hoosiers . I run the 225/45/15's on an 8" wheel

and they are pretty well flat on the sidewalls now . The Toyo RA-1 will work fine if you are running full tread in the rain or they are shaved and you don't mind giving up the grip of the new compounds. The Kumho 710's seem to be the stickiest tires on the market now sending Hooiser back to work on a new model,

The new model is already being tested .

One of our club Members put 632 track miles on Azenis in one weekend , and that didn't count the other track days he attended . Our local road course has

a 1 plus mile straight and his WRX was running in the 130 plus range entering corner one . They are not a rod race tire , but a good track day tire .

Mike

[wburstein]

We have been running Hoosiers for years, and have been on the R3-S04s since November of 2003. They are fast, and we tend to use them for 2-3 race weekends plus some testing sessions before going to a new set. If you break them in as per Hoosier's instructions, they are fast the whole time.

Wayne Burstein

IZCC #214, ZCCNV

WDC Region SCCA, ITS #10

wburstein@mountainmotorsports.net

www.mountainmotorsports.net

[Chino 240Z]

We have really like the life and performance of the Toyo RA1s (245/50/14s). Between my wife and I we log about 350 hot lap miles in a day. The set I have on now have about 1125 miles, even wear, no chunking, very predicable, no signs of giving up lap times yet (Actually getting faster) I shave em as I wear em. I keep the wear even by rotating them off the rims. Not fender to fender racing, but rather opentrack events every other month, so the abuse my be less. I think there's still have another 1000miles to go.