Thanks, I glad you like the videos.
I seemed to have gone from a golden set of Hoosier R6's that lasted about 40 heat cycles to a ^&$$&%^# set that never worked at all.
Talking to the Hoosier dealer, he 'claims' that the Chuckwalla track is too new and you can't get heat into sticker tires so they won't cure properly. I don't know if this is a sales pitch covering BAD tires or true. Doesn't make sense, but the tires clearly were terrible. The car was almost un-drivable at Fontana. I was 2 seconds slower than usual, driving more on the ragged edge. It was not fun.
I ended up putting old front tires from Dave's 993 on the back of our 996 just to try slicks for the first time, even though they were only 265's. Brought the car back to drivable and seem to be doing fine until the sidewall simply blew out on the inside of the passenger tire after about 8 laps. I am just very lucky that it happened at 120 mph on the infield, instead of at 150 going into 1. They had the right pressure and didn't seem to be overheated at all. I have since heard several similar stories of the Hoosier slicks blowing for no reason, so I think I will be sticking with DOT tires.
So, with this set of tires, I need to take my class as these 'lasted' 10 heat cycles at best
and were at least 2 seconds slower than they should be.
Posted: Tue Jun 07, 2011 8:35 am
