Originally Posted by bavarian06

There were two sections where the car would fly over the bumps of the road, literally propelling us out of our seats. I was always white fisted going through these sections, ready to correct the steering wheel if the wheels came back down differently then how they left the ground; from you excerpt: “The racecar has only ¾ of an inch compression on its outside spring, so it loses ALL grip momentarily. Imagine going from generating 1.2~1.5 G’s of side loading to zero for an instant? It will take a fast and large correction of the steering wheel to keep the car balanced and on course. This is what makes it so much harder to drive. It really requires an innate sense of exactly what the car is going to do, along with the experience to make the right corrections to be able to drive this car at its limit.” We were experimenting if I was better off lifting, semi throttle, or go flat out (I didn’t have the ***** so I would occasionally have to lift from a semi throttle input) going through these sections.

So my question, if I was to swap out my street tires to a RA-1, would this:

1) improve
2) worsen
3) stay roughly the same

the car’s handling characteristics over these two sections? The springs aren't expensive but the labor associated in getting swapped out, car realigned, then corner balanced again IS. I rather opt for new tires depending on what your reply is.