learned a lesson about "high performance summer" tires, tonight.... Options

[Aaron Cox]

they dont stick quite as good as they do when the asphalt is 130 degrees... LOL

so its 30 ish outside... coming back from dinner with my cousin....

offramp. 400 yds away.... approaching rapidly to make the light... BRAKE.... let off and set the line.... now i dont think i was trailbraking... but just as i rolled onto the throttle (like minimal increase) .... ass end started coming around slowly.... then faster got off the throttle a bit to try and let it bite.... it did... but im already sideways....

recovered....

cousin thought it was part of the show.....

that was phun...


note to self. "self... it aint 90 degrees out right now.."

yoko ES100's are a great tire... but man... watchout when its low double digits and you are trying to corner at warp factor 9

[ClayPerrine]

I have run AX courses in everything from 100+ degree days to times when you didn't want to hit a pylon because it would either shatter or leave a dent ( NO SHIT.. throw the cone out of the transport truck, and it breaks on the frozen asphalt). From torrential rain to ice storms.


The one thing I learned is that High Performance tires don't like the cold. The best I have ever run in the cold were the first generation Comp TAs. The KDWs that are on my car right now are fairly good in the cold, but with no heater, I don't drive it much in the cold.


Aaron.. glad you are OK and learned something without bending the car. That puts you one step in front of me. I actually wrecked a car at Green Valley raceway in the cold rain finding out the same thing you just learned. (It was my first Porsche - A 924). Slid sideways into a pedestrian bridge on the back side of the course. Too bad that place is now a housing development.