Last Saturday I went at the Talladega gran prix track for a test&tune
day. I tested my talon tsi awd to the track on a set of yokos a032rs.
Anyway, a friend of mine was there also with an Isuzu I-Mark RS with
g-force R1 tires. He previously autocrossed them at one event before,
but they still had plenty of tread. He came in after 3 hot laps to get
a temperature reading on the tires and they were 80 degrees all around.
He went back out and after 5 or 6 hot laps he came in again complaining
of a sudden loss of grip which almost made him fly off the track in one
of the fast banked right-hander turns. His front left tire was
completely destroyed. It looked like the tread was peeled off the
middle of the tire. There was a 3 inch or so wide "trench" in the tire
running along the whole circumference of the tire. The middle part was
completely shredded away and the some of the metal cords was also
ripped. We quickly took a temperature reading and it still read around
80 degrees, which is low compared with the old R1s. Tread was still
visible on the inside of the tire, or what was left of it to prove that
the tire was new. I am hoping that BFG will help him out with a new
tire because clearly this one had a defect. Has anyone else experienced
such a problem? Any suggestions for my friend?
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