OOPs, my apologies! I got the wrong Pilot tires.
Michael Whitehouse
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> From: Alan Dahl <adahl@eskimo.com>
> To: autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: ST tire options
> Date: Tuesday, September 21, 1999 1:58 AM
>
> At 05:12 PM 9/20/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >They are good drivers, they also are very good at preparing cars, and
> >have spared little (if any) expense in doing so. I know the Allen's
> >have tried all of the "best" tires, and I'm pretty sure Vince has, too.
> >Their conclusion was that the Pilot SX was the tire to have to win
> >Nationals. (as a matter of fact, I heard that the Allen's were running a
> >different tire until Vince started soundly beating them with Pilots) My
> >conclusion is, whether that is THE tire or not, it's too expensive and
> >not available in a wide enough range of sizes.
>
> "MICHAEL WHITEHOUSE" <whthse@c2i2.com> writes:
> >I have been autocrossing a 99 Miata on the stock Pilot tires for over a
> >year in our street tire class. I have not noticed the tires going off
> >anymore than other tires do with age. I have run street tire classes
on
> >Yoko A509's, Bridgestone RE71's as well as the Pilot. IMO the Pilot is
> >better than the others. The only down side of the Pilot is they cost so
> >much.
>
> Just a clarification, the Pilots Mark and Vince were using are the
"MXX3",
> not the "SX-GT" which is the OEM Miata Sport tire and are not quite as
> sticky (although they are not a half-bad race tire either). I have raced
> several times on the SX-GT and put 31,000 miles on them and they are
still
> as good as ever (although they don't have much tread left).
>
> - Alan Dahl
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