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Two thumps UP for Potenza RE-01R's!

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Old 09-23-2007, 04:00 PM
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Two thumps UP for Potenza RE-01R's!

Had these installed a couple week back and I could feel the difference in grip over my old Pirelli P Zero Rosso's immediately. I mean these things REALLY stick in the dry! So yesterday I got my first instrumented results to prove it, at the dragstrip. Lowered my sixty foot times by almost 2 full tenths to 1.90, which resulted in a new best ET of 12.72! Car is still completely stock and there were no other changes other than the new tires. All this on a temp track run at a local airstrip, which means the asphalt starting line grip is really no different than on the street. Even so the car was actually bogging off the line, even with full throttle launches. Something I couldn't even begin to consider with the Pirelli's. If I'd had enough time to play with bringing up the rpms some on the launch, I'm sure I'd have gotten some 1.8x short times. Not a bad improvement for a street tire at a temp track, on a car with a rear suspension setup that's hardly optimized for the drag strip.

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