Just did a search on Tirerack.com for 195, 205, and 215 15' 60 serries
competion tires. Excluding the two Kuhmo Rally off road tires, there
areexactly two that match: the Yoko A048 in 205 [$179] and the Hoosier
R3S04 [$182]. There are no Kuhmos in 60 series.
I have used Yoko AVS Intermediates on the track -- not shaved. OK for a
street tire. Tend to chuck off pieces of the tread where it meets the
sidewall [not sue about whether the pressure was "proper" for the tire
or the grip I wanted]. I use these as rain tires on track days -- they
let go real esy, but then I was defintiely not using the right
technique. According to Ross Bentley in one of his Speed Secret books
[Professional Race Driving Techniques], you want to "enter corners
later, and induce slip from the very moment you enter a corner in the
rain. Enter every corner slightly faster and make the car understeer.
Once it is sliding, keep the speed up by squeezing the throttle. If you
feel like you are on rails, you are going too slow." I have not much
experience,so I tried to keep it on rails [and when that failed, made
pretty little loops a coupel of times].
Chuck
Tony Drews wrote:
> Part 2 of my longish message...
>
> Maybe a spec tire isn't a bad idea - I'd run the Dunlops if everyone
> else did and I didn't give up 2-6 sec per lap...
>
> There are other non-"competition" but possibly fairly sticky tires
> that ARE available in 195/60r15 (Yoko AVS ES100, $74; Sumitomo HTR
> 200, $40; Kuhmo Ecsta KH11, $45 for example - these were pointed out
> by Tim Murphy to me). I suspect that these tires won't stand up to
> the rigors of racing, though.
>
> Tim, I think a tire test would be a very valuable service to the FOT
> community (at least those of us that need to run 15" tires). We're
> all searching for a better answer than the current Hoosier. It would
> take me a couple of years or more to work through all of the above
> possibilities.
>
> What's funny is that if the Hoosier went back to the 4 race life we
> used to get this discussion probably wouldn't be happening. I think
> that's a perfect example of short vs long term gain. Tire life
> decreases, short term tire sales increase; long term tire sales
> decrease as folks shop around and become satisfied with other brands.
>
> I would probably try this in the following order:
> Yoko A048 60 series,
> Yoko A032R hard compound, shaved
> Kuhmo VictoRacing V700, shaved
> Kuhmo Ecsta V700
> Then I would start in on the ones that look like slicks...
>
> - Tony Drews
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