How quickly are you going through tires?

[allgripnoslip]

The ambient temp. was in the mid 80º's.
I had lowered my tire pressures a little bit, so I was running hot 32psi before the session and my tires would be hot 35psi after the session.
The track surface was asphalt.

Edit: This was my first time at the track with my mustang, but I've been to the track many times with other cars/tires, RS3's, RT-615's, derezza's, I've never seen a performence orentated tire do this.\

Double edit: Looking close up at the picture I posted, The center section of tread has been carved out longitudinaly. The groves in the rubber do not cut horizontally or even at an angle. I am all for advice as I am no expert, but I'm not uneducated either. I did see in some still photos that both my front and rear are going posative camber around hard corners with the stock alignment. The spots on the track where I felt understeer directly correspond with the spots on the track my photographer's camera picked up posative camber in my front suspension. Before my next track outting I'll have a more agressive alignment.

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[allgripnoslip]

My friend uploaded two of my sessions (not the session the tire gave up the ghost on) [ame] [ame]

So ya'll could see what the track was like.

He mistakenly lables my car as a 2016, but it's a 2015 GT PP.

 

[VTECSAUCE]

I'm at almost 12k miles, still plenty of meat left.

 

[snowman4us]

GT PP

6.7/32 Front and 5.5/32 Rear remaining

3700 miles and 5 autocross events which is around 30 runs
Given that they are 10/32 new, I still have 67% of the front remaining and 55% of the rear. Not bad at all.
On my STi stock tires lasted me about 7K miles and on my EVO the stock tires lasted about 10K miles. So far they are on par with most tires in this class in terms of wear.

 

[snowman4us]

Yea, the stock GT PP P-zero front tires.

That is what happens when you overdrive a street tire (such as 6:20 mark in your first video). Time to get some more dedicated track tires, look into BFG R1's or R888 if you want something to melt over instead of chunk up like these did. You cant expect any true street tire to hold up to being overdriven like that.

 

[Old 5 Oh]

Any idea how the A/S tires are wearing? Any difference between 18's and 19's?

I am at 9,500 miles, no visible difference front to back and a lot of rubber left. I'd guess the P-Zero Neros (18") are good for 30k+ miles. For me.

 

[Tim Hilliard]

I predict my tread will drop greatly on Thursday because I'm running this roller coaster. This video is an experienced guy in an S197 on Conti Scrubs. I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say my P-Zeros are gonna have a bad day.

 

[Clink]

That's gonna be a fun time, what tires are you going with when your stock ones are shot Tim?

 

[Tim Hilliard]

No Idea. Need wheels as well. Tires will come after roll bar and harnesses. Would have liked to add some camber before this week but that didn't happen, so the right front aint gonna be happy.

The guys I run with use a lot of scrubs from race teams, they also trailer their 'street cars' so they don't worry about incidents.

 

[Todd15Fastback]

I predict my tread will drop greatly on Thursday because I'm running this roller coaster. This video is an experienced guy in an S197 on Conti Scrubs. I'm just gonna go out on a limb and say my P-Zeros are gonna have a bad day.

Your 6pots and front tires are going to be screaming with the beating they are going to take on that track. That looks fun as shit! I bet you're really excited:ford:

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