Track Day Tires

[Kawman]

Heinricy demonstrated it could run a full T2 race and win on Hoosiers - so it certainly can handle stickier tires. I always tracked my 5BW on stock tires because frankly they are very good and I didn’t see a reason to add more grip.

Both John and I also ran dedicated track alignments, so frankly that’s the cheapest handling mod if you haven’t already and it’ll help with tire life on track.

It’s up to you, but with a total of 6 days of track experience, I’d focus on learning how to maximize lap time on the stock tires. Your biggest gains will be through the driver mod.

Yes, there's always another second to be gained by continued refinement, but I'm not looking to become a professional driver. I have limited funds to play with and want to wring the most excitement out of few track days I do. I'm looking for the "low lying fruit" to more speed.

Since you are an instructor, care to give some commentary on a recent session? Not counting Spring Mountain this is my 5th track day.

Presently have 2.7 front and 1.7 rear camber, Porterfield brake pads and Castrol SRF brake fluid with stock tires. I tried slicks the following day.

When you get to the black flag from the accident, skip ahead to where the driving starts again.

 

[nordique14]

I ran Goodyear Supercar 3R tires on my 5BW. I figured if they were good enough for the ZL1 1LE, then they were good enough for the 5BW. They were super sticky. Much grippier than regular MPSC2 tires. Probably more similar to the MPSC2R tires. This was my first track day with the 5BW so I do not have a delta compared to other tires on the 5BW.

I also noted that the N-spec MPSC2 tires were much much durable than the regular MPSC2 tires. So that was nice. The downside is that they were less grippy. On my previous car, I experienced the rear sliding around on them since I had N on the rear and regular on the gripper regular ones on the front.