What tire works best on a damp track to very light rain? Still areal rain tire like hoosier wet? A street tire? A dot race tire full tread like r888 or kumho v700?

 

In a race, if it is cold out A6's. With no standing water...........

 

IMO, never go to a HARDER compound tire in the wet than you run in the dry (i.e. Hoosier to Toyo). In light rain, wet track, but not many puddles, use R6/A6 or whatever slicks you run and just alter your line to avoid standing water. You'll be faster on a soft tire driving all of the way around the outside of a turn than on a harder grooved tire trying to drive through a puddle. The only other option would be to hand carve a few grooves in some A6's to make an intermediate. Otherwise, if it's wet wet, run a real rain tire. Using street tires, Toyo's, etc will just make you slow.

Of course, I'm assuming that we're talking about racing here. If this is just a DE, run whatever you want since laptimes don't matter. Might as well run Toyo's in the wet/dry and just deal with whatever laptimes you run.

 

What Brian said - R6's or A6's until there's standing water...

 

Thanks gents for sharing your experience.

 

wets are available in intermediates and soft