People talk about the R888 debacle. What went wrong there? 615's vs R888 vs R888r? Prices are about the same on Tirerack. Curious to know why everyone dislikes the R888?
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-Dylan
3rd Gen CMC Wannabee
The R888 when we were running it got greasy if you pushed it too hard. It wasn't fun to drive or race. It was said that it needed a more sophisticated driver to extract it's full performance. The AI/CMC group gave a big middle finger to that...
I would guess the compound has been revised since then, especially in the newer R888R???
Richard P.
I'm not planning doing any tests with shaved tires. Just write the rule to not allow shaving. If it's possible to gain a performance advantage by paying extra to turn the tires into one weekend or one day tires by shaving them, then there is no point in switching tires.
If someone else wants to spend the money on shaved tires to test, I would be interested in the data. But, that same money spent to add to the sample size of the regular tire test would be much more useful.
Richard P.
What is the tread depth of the tire Josh and Dan are going to test?
Jerry
I haven't measured them yet. Starting at full tread. Measuring will certainly be part of the testing. Also part of the test is to see if they can handle full abuse at full tread depth without chunking. Most street tires can't but these have very large tread blocks and I haven't heard of people having problems with them even though most people are using them as track tires.
Richard P.
Since we don't appear to be doing a full tire test at Cresson, Josh had to buy a set of Toyo's to race on. That, combined with the test tires, fixing his brakes from the last race, and the general costs of running events in back to back weekends has Josh running a bit thin. Last I heard he wasn't planning to do the Friday test day or TT sessions.
Richard P.
All that setup work (specific to Josh's car, anyway) is planned for this weekend. That's assuming the weather plays nice. The forecast is all over the map and changing every time I look. If the weather holds out, we will have a full weekend of setup and heat cycles on his tires with the stickers still on mine. If the skies open up, Josh's won't have as many effective cycles on them and mine won't be stickers anymore...
Richard P.
Where has anyone been able to buy a set of RR’s from? I haven’t bought a set since middle of last year and can’t find anyone that has any in stock to ship to a residence.
-Michael Mosty
CMC #11 Mosty Brothers' Racing
Director - TX Region
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