Tire chunk missing from drifting. Safe to drive?
 

I went to a empty lot and tried getting sideways for 2 hours. I inspected the tires and noticed a chunk of rubber missing from the rear left tire. The spot where the rubber missing feels like soft fur. Should I be playing it safe and drive slow or can I still drive normally? It's not a big spot and I don't feel anything while driving, but its still noticeable.

EDIT:
here's some photos

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/...g/P1000177.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/...g/P1000178.jpg

i'm confident i got these scraps on a few of my rims from tapping the cones. how can i get such bad scraps from cones? it makes no sense to me unless these rims are just soft
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/...g/P1000179.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/...g/P1000180.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/...g/P1000181.jpg

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/...g/P1000182.jpg

inner tread is mooshed together
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/...g/P1000183.jpg

The "soft fur" is the exposed belt(s) in the tire. Most tire guys would consider a tire with any belts exposed as non-viable and possibly dangerous.

told ya this was going to get expensive....

haha. hella fun though.

Not worth the risk of a blowout and damaging the car or losing control and hurting someone else. Get the spare on and replace it

Ummm... this would be extremely dangerous.

The tire will still be safer than the spare, but yes it needs to be replaced ASAP.

i have 1 mechanic friend saying it's okay for daily driving and not going crazy. i have another telling me it's not fine.

do you guys still stand by your answers after the posted pictures?

:facepalm:

Get the tire(s) replaced. There is absolutely NOTHING safe about that tire.

Why wouldn't you just replace it? that don't look safe

okay thank guys

Well if you don't replace it, i don't want to see "I wreaked my Z thread next week"

It's probably not as bad as it looks (which is pretty bad), but considering the way you drive and the result of a blow out under those circumstances it is not worth the risk.

I don't think those scrapes were from cones, usually cones leave a black mark behind that can be rubbed off. I've hit more than my fair share :p

ya i wondered about the scrapes on the spokes cause i figure rubber cones really cant make that much of damage to metal. but i'm 100% i didn't curb them parking or driving. plus the scrapes are roughly 6-8" off the ground.

wow. that is a lot of missing tread!

nice to be able to just burn a $300 tire in an hour doing donuts