Track day North Report -- Now Tires?

[dswalterwi at gmail.com (Don Walter)]

With my recent endevers into AutoXing at Treffen I have found the need for
better track tires.  Any suggesstions for sizes and brands?

On 8/20/06, C Boyko <roccit_53@scirocco.cs.uoguelph.ca> wrote:
>
> So I have Daun nearly asleep on the other couch here, and Ben H and
> Meredith headed back not so long ago. We had a great weekend despite some
> pretty crappy weather.
> Friday we entertained in country style, featuring ARGO rides (on our
> little
> yellow 6 wheeled amphibian, and what would a VW GTG be without blowing up
> an engine? My son had planned to blow up his ailing GTI at the track, but
> the GTI had other ideas. So it got pretty dead, with a completely
> obliterated cap/rotor and distributor assembly, accented by a nice view of
> rod #2 though the block just above the hose on the waterpump. General car
> talk, some tech procedures and many adult beverages followed.
> There was a fine group of German metal gathered in my driveway, Daun's
> first Scirocco, Ben's gorgeous MkI, Meredith's track ready GLI, Andy
> Woodward's beautiful MkII turbo, Drew's 84 Wolfie 1.9 TD (Carrots) and
> Jason C's 911. Yep, it was great!!!!!!!
> Saturday we headed for the track, adding MkI Mark's newly plated MkII and
> Sean's pretty Mars Wolfie to the pack (and my son in Denny's Mazda), Denny
> and I were planning to drag race our regular CSCS series races, and Drew
> was all teched in to time trial Carrots. Not to be, the mist started and
> thickened into full blown rain, cancelling quarter mile action for the
> day.
> Lapping continued unabated! Jason pushed the Porsche to the edge of
> traction and off the edge of the track in controlled graceful sweeping
> high
> speed ballet moves, Ben zoomed past everyone and everything making it look
> so damned easy, MkI Mark owned the track with some heavy oil-sucking fog
> action early on, Sean proved that two wheels are not just for motorcycles,
> and Meredith steamed around the track. Adam, well, he was driving the
> Mazda, so enough said, And Daun took me for a ride part way throught eh
> day, and I was sure he'd done some track time. Drew bought ten laps and
> went out when the skies opened, and stayed till a phone call brought him
> in, Carrots was doin' jusy fine. I took Klaus out for ten laps late in the
> day, and had fun, so pretty well everyone got a chance to kill rubber and
> pads. Jason said he put 150 kms on his car, and had spent a bit of seat
> time in Meredith's and Ben's cars, so there was lots of track time.
>
> Tech stuff? Daun's car ditched a starter bolt, Mark's car needed some oil
> drained out, and Sean's car decided that it really didn't need that nasty
> front hub nut after all (ouch). Otherwise, there were smiles all around! I
> also scored a ride with Meredith, and with a race prepped Subaru (in the
> rain, OMG, AWD rocks!) Saturday night we had pizza and beer and videos
> courtesy of Anson, who rode down with  Andy.
> Sunday, George showed up part way throught he day, and by late in today,
> here I am......just Daun remains.
> Anyway, you missed it if you weren't here, we had a blast!!!! Thanks to
> all
> who came, it was great to see all of you!
> I can do it again in October, so LMK if there's interest eh?
> Cathy
>
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Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
1986 8V Black Scirocco (Daily Driver)
1984 8V Audi 4000s (RIP 2/14/2006)
1986 2.0L 16V TEC 2 Black Scirocco (see progress at
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/708939)
1986 2L 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (Ben's Car)
1988 1.8 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (sold on 3/29/04)
1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
1971 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Beetle (sold)