Originally Posted by
Little_Mike
what compounds are offered other than blues?
We ran blues at the Xray & Big Dad's Asphalt challenge, the track was sugar water and VHT prepped so traction was high, the tires gave as good traction as any other tire (good looks to boot), but the wear was terrible.
After one 5 minute run the tires had the wear on them I would see after 4-6 runs with RP's or Sorex's.
Dont get me wrong, these tires are a new standard, but harder compounds need to be offered for outdoor racing, whether it is a VHT prepped track or a parking lot race course, the blues just dont hold up well, even on 75 degree days.
and Im not the only one experiencing this, except for 2 or 3 people running the tires at the Asphalt challenge, the wear was very similar to what I experienced.
I even asked Paul Lemieux if my setup would give bad tire wear and he said no, so when I showed him my tires even he was surprised.
I have a set of jaco blues on the "old" dish wheel, those tires are dailed, i even traction roll with them at SIR. the "new" prism blue takes a different set up as mentioned before, JB and I run Mi3's. without changing my setup I can get the "insert" wear line on the inside of the rear on the first run, on the second run they are howling around the corners and are slow, however JB made adjustments to his chassis for the tires and his tires are wearig perfectly and hes getting more runs out of them.
the reason the guys from SIR did so well, is because they got tires and tested before the race and had setups for the tires. IMO