learned a lesson about "high performance summer" tires, tonight.... Options

[Aaron Cox]

SO I read your post a couple times Aaron. and deduced what you did wrong. Too fast in. and then chickened out mid corner and lifted off the gas. Transfered any traction you did have on the back right into wieght transfer on the front.
Oh and you actually thought that ES100's are good tires.

too fast in for the conditions.... and rolled back off the gas mid corner when it started to come around (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

ok... let me roll home an put my A032R's on..... im sure they will stick even better in the cold LOL

[ClayPerrine]

I have run AX courses in everything from 100+ degree days to times when you didn't want to hit a pylon because it would either shatter or leave a dent ( NO SHIT.. throw the cone out of the transport truck, and it breaks on the frozen asphalt). From torrential rain to ice storms.


The one thing I learned is that High Performance tires don't like the cold. The best I have ever run in the cold were the first generation Comp TAs. The KDWs that are on my car right now are fairly good in the cold, but with no heater, I don't drive it much in the cold.


Aaron.. glad you are OK and learned something without bending the car. That puts you one step in front of me. I actually wrecked a car at Green Valley raceway in the cold rain finding out the same thing you just learned. (It was my first Porsche - A 924). Slid sideways into a pedestrian bridge on the back side of the course. Too bad that place is now a housing development.