Rain tire Question..

[gran racing]

Dirt stockers don't need to be pouring rain as some believe. I drove with these on the car at the Glen earlier this year and was in love!! Seriously, they kick some butt. Hoosier is going to be releasing a different wet tire compound this year. It'll be interesting to see how different those are.

[TStiles]

You know Matt ..... It's a miracle we didn't wad em up on that 3 wide start ... In the sequence of pictures , you can see the rest of the field backing off , giving us room to crash ... Just for the record , nobody touched , nobody damaged.

[Matt93SE]

You know Matt ..... It's a miracle we didn't wad em up on that 3 wide start ... In the sequence of pictures , you can see the rest of the field backing off , giving us room to crash ... Just for the record , nobody touched , nobody damaged.

What you can't see is that we were each about 10' apart in the photo above. Eva was well into the runoff area and my left tires were just outside the rumble strips.
How we made it through the exit 3 wide, I have no idea. I gotta admit I was squeezing my cheeks in as tight as they'd go hoping I could fit that Cadillac-sized car between two Miatas and not come out with one underneath me.

Man my car looks huge in those photos compared to all you Miatas!

We run the R888 tire also in the rain. Weve run them at Summit Point and New Jersey Motorsports Park. They have worked fine for us only when the track is very damp and drying quickly. We have seen that they are a great transition tire from wet to dry but im sure it all depends on the car. We dont really take care of them, they just sit on the trailer during the season and get rained on and blasted with sunlight. But like I said, they worked very well (to our surprise). We were getting lap times about 3 seconds slower. However, we would consider ditching them for a set of hoosier rains.

3 seconds slower? our laps were about 30 seconds slower in the wet!!
and getting a season out of R888s? I get maybe 4 race weekends out of them or 2 DE weekends. Then again I buy takeoffs that were already shaved so much less rubber on them than a full tread R888.

[LateApexer]

Dirt stockers don't need to be pouring rain as some believe. I drove with these on the car at the Glen earlier this year and was in love!! Seriously, they kick some butt. Hoosier is going to be releasing a different wet tire compound this year. It'll be interesting to see how different those are.

I love the Dirt Stockers also but I used them only in pouring rain conditions. When the rain stopped and the track started drying out, I purposely drove off line to stay in the water. Lost a lot of rubber off of them that race! Switched to Hoosier Wets thereafter.

Jim