5 team spots left for Friday nite, need 2 more filled to not cancel:

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1 team spot still left for Sat nite, race is a go whether it gets taken or not:

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okkkkk

 

You can learn to threshold brake with ABS and you won't kill tires as fast as Mike does....

J/K Mike

--Doug

 

oooh. I see. Killing tires won't be good. I've only got one set of slicks at the moment and i need them to last both days I need the car to last both days too. \

 

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Uh... do you have any street tires you could use instead?

 

I'm just running what mike put me on.I dunno about all this road course stuff. rofl. quarter mile is so much less to worry about.

 

Quarter mile is also about 10000000x less fun?

Get Mike to put you on some decent street tires, for about 5 great reasons I'd be happy to detail if you wish.

PS- are they actual slicks, or DOT-R's?

 

they're a set of his shaved toyos. Maybe just race tires? I dunno really. I just know they aren't supposed to chunk off as badly as the street tires will.

well since I haven't done a road course yet I can't confirm nor deny the multiplied amounts of fun it is over a quarter mile

 

Street tires FTW...
--Doug

 

If your alignment is decent, your car handles ok, and you don't overdrive the car into or out of the corners, you shouldn't have any tire chunking problems.

Also unless Mike is your instructor, you may have trouble finding an instructor who will get in your car if those tires are on it (street tires are strongly suggested in HPDE1, in fact some groups and instructors flat-out require 'em.)

Shaved Toyo race tires don't communicate like street tires, so you'll be missing some valuable parts of the learning experience, i.e. how to hear and feel what the tires are doing long before they let go.

Beyond that... you'll learn better/faster, and have more fun sliding around, on street tires.

Think of the journey (i.e. learning to go fast) instead of just the destination (going fast)...

IMHO YMMV ETC,

Jon