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Adam, does it happen to say if they used the same tyre and compound just in a different size ?

1sec could really be put down to anything from better weather to more practise in that car on that track, if he went from 245 to 265 with the same tyre and lost 1 second would say a lot more :(

Adam, does it happen to say if they used the same tyre and compound just in a different size ?

Well i had assumed so, because otherwise the information is meaningless as you say. Maybe I am assuming too much... good point.

Yeah sorry I don't believe that every racing team in the world was wrong. Hectic drifters want stretch because 1) narrow tyres are cheaper and 2)it is a fashion and that is about the only people who do it.

I'll stick with the widest tyre I can fit on a given rim size except for 2 cases:

1/wet tyres. narrower can aquaplane less giving more grip (the long contact patch instead of wide pumps more water out)

2/dirt rally tyres. narrow tyres dig in better

So....So guys who can't spend a small nations GDP on Semi's

Fz201's seem to be off the list now...

The V70s look to be the goods

Anything else worth looking at, for both dry and reasonable wet performance, for sprints and hill climbs (so need to work ok when cold)?

  • 4 weeks later...

So....So guys who can't spend a small nations GDP on Semi's

Fz201's seem to be off the list now...

The V70s look to be the goods

Anything else worth looking at, for both dry and reasonable wet performance, for sprints and hill climbs (so need to work ok when cold)?

Hey mate,

Where are you sourcing the V70's from? I want to check a price for 235 17's

Cheers.

Thanks, right place and what not :D

I''ve had all manner of 265/35/18 on 18x9s over the years and they have all fitted quite well until I got the AD08s and they need to be on a 9.5 and these Z221s are a little bit wider again over the AD08s

The AD08s would sit perfectly on a 9.5 where these I would like to see on a 10 or a 9.75 if such a thing exists, but the wheels I was looking at came in either 9.5 or 10.5 :(

  • 3 weeks later...

So international tyre trader have my V70a's however in the K21 compound which is the softest.

$884 delivered.

tempting.

but...will they be too soft!?

Not as soft as you :ph34r: lol

With a light car they should be OK? A heavy nugget like mine would probably be bad news for them though!

yeah thats what I'm thinking, a lighter car...shouldnt be too bad?

I dont know really, but from what i have seen those Hankook Z221 softs are holding up for something like 300+ laps on the smaller cars so i guess these would compare similar...

Only one way to find out i guess :yes:

thats pretty good!

I guess my concern is if I get back into racing - are they going to last 10-15 laps at a time.

as you say, one way to find out.

other side of the coin is I dont think I'll be doing door to door next year either, it'll be sprints and hillclimbs.

if anything I'll do Festival of Sporting Cars - thats where I'm awesome as won my first race there (yes, more than 1 car on the track...more than 10 actually haha)

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