Bryan,
For what it's worth, I tried that sort of unintentionally early in the season!
Had a loss of alarm type accident, got to Candlestick too late to trade tires
before my run group. It was raining, so I figured maybe I had a chance, car
had Dunlop Sport A2's which are quite good rain tires. I was still slower
than the Azenis-clad guys by I'm guessing a second /extra/ (hard to say as I
also missed the course walk!) If it had commenced to downpour I wouldn't have
lost any more but it started to dry instead, darn it. As long as you're not
running through deep puddles the Azenis seem to have quite respectable stick
in the wet. Of course you can't be down to the wear bars....
On my old BFG R1's on a wet skidpad at Buttonwillow, it went around sticking
harder in the wet (albeit only 25-30 mph) than the car would probably have
done on its decent high performance street tires in the dry. That compound
and the Azenis Sport one both seem to be good in the slightly wet at least.
Paul
----- Original Message -----
From: Bryan Nemy
To: PAUL TIBBALS ; autox
Most serious competitors carry an extra set of rains. As an example, the
leader in ASP ran on Hoosier dirt track tires. Most just run on streets or
good full tread racing tires in the rain. Of course STS and STX are already
on streets, so maybe all seasons would be good?
Bryan
PAUL TIBBALS wrote:
Bryan,
Hmmm, good point. I hadn't heard about the weather. OTOH, how many of
them
carried an extra set of wheels/tires to account for possible weather?
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