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roooo
03-14-2003, 01:48 AM
Anyone seen this yet..
Hankook Ventus Z211 Racing Tire

"Official spec tire for the ... 2003 Mazdaspeed Miata Cup Championship"

http://www.hankooktireusa.com/race/pop.html
TYSON
03-14-2003, 10:10 AM
Seems to be more and more choices all the time. Nitto has an r-compound track tire now, based on their drag radial, but with a stronger sidewall.
Marsh
03-15-2003, 12:48 AM
Originally posted by TYSON
Seems to be more and more choices all the time. Nitto has an r-compound track tire now, based on their drag radial, but with a stronger sidewall.

Yea but everyone I know that tried their drag radial said the sucked a big fat one...
TYSON
03-15-2003, 01:09 AM
I wouldn't know. The only guy I know who's tried them hung a serious beating on the 'Street' tire class last year until he bolted on a set. He promptly broke his transmission with the grip.
soloZ
03-15-2003, 10:31 AM
^^ who was that?
TYSON
03-15-2003, 11:54 AM
Ian Currie. We're still talking drag racing with the Nittos, right?:)

SCC had an article recently showing all the choices in street legal racing tires, both drag and circuit. They left out the Hoosiers, Hankooks and M&H drag tires, though.
Marsh
03-16-2003, 04:38 AM
Matt Glasford had them on his 600+ hp vette (that he brings to Waterford hills every year). He didn't get serious time reductions and other Vette owners he knows all told him they were much faster on any other DOT drag radial. I've yet to hear that the Nittos are any better than any other race tire, only that they are better than street tires.
TYSON
03-16-2003, 11:23 AM
I wouldn't be surprised. Somebody has to be the worst of the bunch.
Logan
03-26-2003, 12:19 PM
They can't be that bad, else why would the *****s use 'em?