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.
My two cents worth,
Michael Whitehouse
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> From: Alan Pozner <AlanP@identicard.com>
> To: 'Craig Blome' <cblome@yahoo.com>; autox@autox.team.net
> Cc: Loren@kscable.com
> Subject: RE: ST tire options
> Date: Monday, September 20, 1999 7:23 AM
>
> FWIW I have heard from a very competitive ST driver that the Pilots are
> great when new but after several heat cycles the rubber compound gets
hard
> and loses grip. I have Pilots for street tires on my A4 and experienced
the
> same thing. They felt grippy for the first 2K miles but are now like
rocks.
>
> Regards,
> Alan Pozner
>
> On Monday, September 20, 1999 8:59 AM, Craig Blome
[SMTP:cblome@yahoo.com]
> wrote:
> > > - -----------------------------
> > >
> > > Date: Sat, 18 Sep 1999 23:19:35 -0500
> > > From: Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com>
> > > Subject: Re: ST tire options
> > >
> >
> > <<<snip>>>
> >
> > Loren,
> >
> > The idea of a spec tire sounds like the most workable
> > of your proposals. BUT...One event and two cars is
> > pretty spotty evidence to declare the Pilot SX an
> > overdog IMHO. The Allens and Vince Bly are pretty
> > darn good drivers; I'd say making observations about
> > their tires based on their driving is trying to make
> > inferences about the population based on statistical
> > outliers, eh? Maybe National Tour and some regional
> > results ought to be looked at as well.
> >
> > Craig B.
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