I ran the 225/45-13's on my ITC Scirocco. It looked like too much tire to me too. Prior to that I ran the 185/60, the 205/60, and 225/50 series. However, the 225/45 was the fastest on the stopwatch.

The tire busters didn't care much for trying to stuff that much tire on the rim, and the tire wore funny (a strip about 2" wide about 1/3 of the way from the inside edge...mostly on the RF) but it was faster so that's what I ran.

Interestingly, the 185/60 all around was almost as fast at VIR (probably due to less rolling resistance), but I would run out of front tire late in a race (over heated them). My setup on the ITC Scirocco was the 225's out front and the 185's in the back, if anyone cares...

MC

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Mark Coffin
#14 GP BSI Racing/Airborn Coatings/Krispy Kreme/Tristram's Garage VW Scirocco
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