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Originally Posted by NevadaSTi
Two cases in point here, at Hawthorne I got my ass kicked by an STi on V710's. I couldn't come close to matching his times.
Poiunt number two, Pat Riley's S2000. For the whole season he has ran on race tires. I can usually come within 1.5 second of his time. Which gives me the win due to the T modifier. Then on Sunday at Squaw Valley, Pat ran on his street tires. Pat was in average of tow seconds behind me. So, based on this unscientific analysis. I would say that race tires do give you an advantage. In Pat's case, it would seem to give him a 3.5 second faster car.
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The problem with this direct comparison is that typically, people who normally run on race tires get slower when they switch to street tires, because they tend to overdrive, or underdrive trying to fidn the much lower limits of the street tires. You don't think Pat's V710s give him 3.5 seconds do you?