Lemming

Just dropped off my Hankooks to have them swapped from phonies to cookies, going to give the early offset a try on my 924S for my last weekend of the year. That got me to thinking, I've purchased only 3 sets of tires this year (RA's, Avons, and Hankooks) and have already put in 22 track days. The scary part is that the Avons have only seen two heat cycles, so basically my year was just two sets!

Another interesting fact, of the 22 trackdays so far this year, I didn't see a single day of rain while on the track. Guess that tells you what kind of drought the South is in.

So, how many tires and track days have you gone through this year!

pat056

19 days (all race days) and 5 sets of tires (thank you Kuhmo contingency money!!). I do races with no more that 2-3 heat cycles on a set of tires, when I can. Did a 90 minute enduro on Kuhmo 710's with 4 heat cycles and 75 minutes b4 the race start. After the 90 minutes, fronts are still OK and rears are toast! I can do 2 sets of rears for every set of fronts, but I do like a loose set-up.

J Silverman

I put my RA1s on at the beginning of the year. Ive done 13 track days with them and they are about half tread. Started at full tread. Out of 16 days, only 1 was raining, but it was a down pour.

smlporsche

I put 15 track days on a shaved set of RA-1's this year.
They have not chorded but they did get squirmy (heat cycled) so they've been replaced for next year.
Overall very happy with them.

M758

For me

2007 = 10 Days -10 Races(2 more to go) - Tires as of this next event I will have run on 3 sets of tires. I finished up a set at the start of the year. Ran new a set in the middle of the year and will be breaking in a 3rd set. The set I ran in the middle of the year will last me in to next season.

2006 = 16 days -13 Races
I used 4 sets of tires, however One set was old and used for one DE day. I used another set that was 1/2 way done. I used a 3rd set full up an the 4th was partially used and finised up in 2007.

2005 = 13 days -10 Races
2004 = 11 days - 11 Races
2003 = 23 days - 20 Races
2002 = 13 days - 10 Races


Since I started racing in 2002 I have used 10 sets of tires start to finish and I have my 11th set at about 1/2 life still. That is over 74 races and 86 trackdays.
2 Sets Victoracers and the rest RA-1's.

Mike K.

Not a good year for track days. Only 59 days but I missed one race weekend when Junior arrived ( he's going to owe me big for that one when he's old enough ) and didn't spend much time south. Don't know how many sets of tires but not many. In 2005, I went through 15 sets of MPSCs.

Bull

28 days, 2 sets of R6s.

Circuit Motorsports

9 races and associated practice, qualifying
4 sets of tires.

sjanes

track days: 24
Kumho rears: 3 sets
Kumho fronts: 2 sets
MPSC: 1 set

All sets were driven to the cords. I have about 1 day left on the front tires and probably about 4 on the rears to start off next year.

Bull, 14 days on an R6 sounds like a lot. How many heat cycles / day?

Bull

It is too many. Normally 4/day, but due to extenuating circumstances this year, it was sometimes 2-3/day. Normally I would do three sets in 30 days (DEs, not racing of course). I did find with one set that they eventually get so hard that they wear very slowly, but serve my purpose of learning the limits of a completely new car.

Sean F

I had a set go 15 days including a race weekend and 3 open track days.

Apex Rex

Slacker

GT3 Nut

track days - 25
sets of tires/slicks - unknown
not knowing how much was spent on tires - priceless

Bull

Ahem, I didn't see you out there this past weekend.......don't you have some school work to do????

brucegre

#of days, somewhere north of 60,
went through at least 6 sets of MPSC and one set of R1s. And two sets of rain tires, one set at the first weekend of the year and the second at the final day I ran.

Of course, in my case, it's all work related