Hi Bob, Those are my Hankook street tires on there as my "rains." They've been on the car since 2003 with probably around 25 to 30 hours of track time on them! The car now shows around 5100 miles on the odometer, but some of that is skewed by the fact that I didn't have the correct speedo drive in it after the rear axle change.
I left my "race" Hoosier TD's in the trailer. I don't think I could have gotten them warm enough to do any good for me. And, bias belts in the rain aren't the greatest tires!!!
The wet grass was slippery enough to let the front end slide faster than the rears when the two front tires went off the pavement. That is the only thing that brought the car back to straight down the hill! I had "both feet in" and was ready to bring it out at the 180° spin point about one microsecond later. Then the front started to come back! I've never caught a 90°+ rotation and brought it out straight before!
Just after Turn 3, first session of the day on Sunday with track temps around 35° and damp I again stayed off the "dry line" in the hope of being able to put some power down in a straight line. The car did a full 180° with just a nudge of the throttle! Needless to say I "behaved" after that!
Talk about slow Lap Times. Saturday in the rain, I turned a 3:56! That's a minute and 5 seconds slower than my usual dry track speed! Sunday AM "warm-up" when I did the 180, my best lap time was 4:04!!!
Yesterday it was nice here, so I bathed the Pumpkin, anti-freezed it and put it in for a nice long winter's nap.
Best regards, Tom
Port Washington, WI 53074
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