TravisJB Journal

M.Bonanni · 10-01-2013, 12:00 PM

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Originally Posted by travisjb

Possible you were getting used to the slicks and how far you could push them? I'd be curious to see more data.

As I said, just relaying what some people at the Chin Road Atlanta event were saying about their own experiences and observed time differences at RA. My experience running slicks is only at two tracks, PIR and Chuckwalla. They were good for a couple seconds over my Hoosiers R6's at both of those, and the Hoosiers were good for a couple seconds over my NT01s.

Nah, it was consistently the same lap time all weekend long. It purely just made the car worse. A lot of times drivers do go faster switching to slicks just by having more confidence in their car thinking that they should be faster. Or many times the stickier tire helps cover up small driving mistakes and aggressiveness with their inputs. So perhaps I should rephrase that simply bolting on slicks to a car that is not set up for them will not make the car faster however it may make the driver faster. The car I was driving I was very comfortable in, very consistent in, and at a track I was also comfortable in. The car had almost a year's worth of setup on Hankook R-S3 street tires and we didn't make any other changes except the slicks. Obviously the smaller the jump between tires the less affect it has and also some cars will be affected less given their setup and suspension geometry. I could get a lot more technical and boring but you get the point.

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