First experience on R tires: I was laughing so hard I couldn't drive. I
never put street tires on that car ever again, not even on the street.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Joe Ciarcia
> Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 13:56
> To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Your first experience on R compounds and Azenis vs.
> Victoracers
>
>
> Warning: Too much autocross content for one of my
> posts :-)
>
> Okay, Lorry and I switched cars during fun runs on
> Sunday(we both have the same car). He's running Kumho
> R-Compounds (225/50/16), and I'm running Falken Azenises
> (215/45/16). So do you remember your first experience with
> R-Compounds? Here's how mine went... Going through the first
> loop produced an extreme grin factor (I almost blew a face
> gasket). This seemed to add more lead to my foot so I really
> stomped on it through the slalom and to my suprise it stuck
> (for the most part). At the end of the slalom as I approached
> the left hand sweeper I found myself going in circles.
> Somehow I was now going through the course backwards <eek>.
> They really are quite abrupt when they let go. I can clearly
> see the benefit of requiring street tires in the novice class
> and I'm glad I didn't start running R's early on. I think
> that because of this I was quickly able to sus out the R's
> and keep the pointy side of the car heading downstream. What a blast!
>
> Kumho vs Falken - The first thing I immediately
> noticed was that the R compounds were much more
> precise as turn in response dramatically improved over
> what I experienced with the Falkens. I was about .75
> seconds faster on the Kumhos and Lorry was about .75
> seconds slower on the Falkens (which means Peter
> probably would have PAXed 10th on Sunday had he been
> driving Lorry's car (still not good enough to beat his
> own son though ;-)). I still LOVE my Falkens but now
> that I've experienced the R-compounds... they're a
> drug!
>
> Anyhow, there's my unscientific analysis of Kumho vs
> Falken.
>
> Joe
>
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