trackday tyre pressure and wear?

[g dawg]

1st trackday coming up at bedford just wanted some advise about tyre pressure and the tyre wear i'm likely to use?

 

[Spongebob 172]

depends on what tyres you wish to use???

 

[r8byb]

meant to up the pressure by 2 - 3 psi from normal road use, so if cold your pressures are 30 up them to 33 for example..

I see you have a 172 so id say 35 front's 33 rears .

 

[Steve]

R888's go to circuit running 30 psi all round.

After 3/4 laps come in & drop to 24/6F 28/30R

Works very well for me.

 

[g dawg]

got proxi t1r on the back but have new but budget tyres on the front the garage i just brought the car from thought they were doing me a favour! just wondered if they would see me through the day

 

[Ian_182]

I remember someone on here running theres quite low and getting good results

 

[r8byb]

Running them low you run the risk of when the tyre gets hot the sidewall folding under the rim, my mate ran his 106 gti with low pressure (29psi) and had no writing on his sidewall after.

good luck with the budget tyres :|

 

[3doorpete]

I used to run mine on my old 172 Cup at 32 front and 34 rear. 32 front and rear works well, but I liked the back to be loose at the limit and hate understeer and found having the rears a little harder helped.

Wear wise - depends how you driver, but being a front engine, front weight biased, front wheel drive - the front tyres take the brunt. One track day would destroy the front tyres outside shoulders. Car is quite light so not too hard on the rest of the tyres. At a push, I'd see 3 trackdays out of the fronts.

 

[g dawg]

3 trackdays on what tyre?

 

[3doorpete]

I used the OE ones - can't remember what they were now, but were 172 Cup specific and expensive compared to other makes

 

[r8byb]

michelins i think..

I use goodyear eagle F1's on the 182 for reference with 34 front 32 rear on track .

 

[g dawg]

got f1s ordered for after the trackday, just paranoid of destroying the front ones whilst on the track is it best to do 3laps come in and so on

 

[r8byb]

Good good, i did 20 mins on F1's with next to no wear at all..

Did you ordder 195/45/16 there only 50 pounds each from camskill's

 

[g dawg]

orded from my tyre £10 more i'll look at camskill cheers

 

[r8byb]

www.camskill.co.uk

Got mine from there, they even text you to tell you there on there way for delivery, i got a text an they were there 30 mins later.


next day delvier too