That makes some sense for Kumhos, but street tire compounds seem to be too
hard to do much draping. Maybe all those tread block edges, but 3Com has an
even more rocky slurry coat.
As far as I can tell, the highest PAX'ed driver on any sort of street tire
was Trygve Isaacson, who PAX'ed 20th running sti on Bridgestone S-02s.
That's a little bit better than the average top sti PAX, and Katie's time in
my car (which she had never even driven before) would have PAX'ed her 11th.
And Katie, you're welcome!
Peter Thana
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Smokerbros@aol.com [SMTP:Smokerbros@aol.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 16, 2000 12:06 PM
> To: kkelly@spss.com; lollipop@ricochet.net; donbarbmckenna@earthlink.net
> Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: GGF & Tires (was: Inner QuandAries)
>
> In a message dated 8/16/2000 10:24:35 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
> kkelly@spss.com writes:
>
> << when I ran Lucy in the third group, I FELT like I
> was on street tires, and crappy ones at that. This was the first time I
> thought maybe my Miata had too much horsepower. When I drove Peter's car
> (thank you Peter!), this most amazing BMW Z3 Coupe in fun runs that
> afternoon, I felt much more connected to the ground. At this point, I
> really
> have no idea why this is, because normally, there is such a gap between
> the
> R tires and the street tires >>
>
> I think the GGF lot likes tires with lots of tread and/or soft tires, so
> that
> the tread blocks have a better ability to sort of drape themselves over
> the
> surface irregularities, and consequently have more contact with the
> ground.
> The Boeing lot at Kent was known for favoring full tread Kumhos, and seems
>
> like a very similar surface to me.
> It would be interesting to know what the top 10 PAX people were on. I can
>
> speak for #5 (2nd place in DSP in Don Lew's Supra), we were on Kumho
> V700s,
> with a lot of tread (not sure exactly how many events on the tires...
> Don?)
>
> CHD
>
> CHD
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