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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