Almost all of the STS/STX people run Falkens, but there is still a pretty good
variety of tires in our local Street Tire class. The top 3 trophy spots in
this year's slush were on the Azenis.
They are pretty darn grippy, and really show their strength at asphalt sites
like 3Com and Oakland. I tried them once on concrete and the gap to R tires is
still huge- my guess 2 seconds to Kumhos and more to Hoosiers (60 sec. course).
At Oakland my guess is not much more than a second difference to Kumhos if
that (in line with GRM test performed on slippery asphalt). At GGF they seemed
pretty good until they got down to the wear bars, and became undriveable after
that. I had no traction whatsoever with the rears at the wear bars, moved
those to the front for the next event and the car just went straight under
power. You of all people should know how hard it is to get an MR2 to handle
like crap, I've never experienced it under any condition before (ok except when
I ran the Duel at DeAnza in the rain on Hoosiers:) Went back to Oakland and
the balance was perfect again.
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Esra [mailto:pesra@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 12:11 PM
To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
Subject: street tire class? (hi!)
--- Smokerbros@aol.com wrote:
> I raced in STS this year with kids 1/2 my age (those are the older
> ones...) in a car that I drove on the street every day, and I didn't
> even have to change tires to run!
Wow, sounds like a *sweet* car! How does it do against Corvettes?
Street tire class question: are the regulars on Falkens, or on real
street tires? Thought I might bring out my recently acquired 99 Miata,
just for fun.
Falken? What the hell is a Falken? Why, back when I was your age,
son...
phil
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