Tire Rack Heat Cycled Tires

[gran racing]

Pull the Hoosier techs aside and they'll tell you the tires are fastest green, but you'll give up a couple of usable heat cycles...

When discussing this thread https://improvedtouring.com...ght=heat+cycle and talking to a few people who most definately know their stuff and have been in the rae tire business for a long time, they've told me that DOT race tires are faster if properly heat cycled. Time to send another e-mail out tonight to confirm I didn't misunderstand anything.

[Greg Amy]

Time to send another e-mail out tonight to confirm I didn't misunderstand anything.

Good luck; you will never get someone to put to paper that Hoosiers are faster green, as the "company line" is otherwise...

Hoosier's Achilles Heal is longevity; even heat-cycled they're faster than the competition. So, why risk that competitive advantage simply to be faster than yourself...? - GA

[seckerich]

Telemetry shows about .2 G's more grip with first few laps on stickers. They will give up after that and get greasy for a few and come back. Stickers that are raced first heat cycle will never maintain the same level of grip after they cool. I tend to trust the actual data rather than guess. This is on a 2680# Mazda. You might get away with it on lighter cars.

[22BMWPiloti]

Thanks for all the feed back, sounds like the on track break in is still probably the most preferred.

[philstireservice]

If you talk to a Hoosier Engineer about "other companies" heat cycling procedures you get that strange look with a dissatisfied grin.......