The Car and the Track
Mazda made this a cakewalk by supplying a base 2010 RX-8 Sport ($27,245), mounting our four sets of 225/40ZR-18 tires on their own spare RX-8 wheels, and inviting us along for two days of lapping at the 2.2-mile Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca near Monterey, California. At about 3100 pounds, the RX-8 has feline balance, firm clamps for brakes, and a suspension so connected and forgiving that the car will run with Porsche 911s and BMW M3s through the track’s tighter sections. The stock W-rated Dunlop SP Sport 2050s provided safe passage from Los Angeles and adhered valiantly to the surface for four to six laps. Eventually, however, they dissolved into yowling, scrubbing meltdown, so we initiated the first of many tire changes.

 

Where's this from? Do you have a link for it?

 

http://www.caranddriver.com/features...rated-gear_box

 

I like this one:

 

^ Then they said "But the limit of these tires is so high (BFGoodrich g-Force R1) that when the grip snaps, it snaps big. If walls are around, you’ll be lucky not to paint them with the fenders..."

Gee, I'll have to try driving harder...I've not experienced this particular characteristic whatsoever. Always most forgiving and as they said, SuperGlue grip. Since they didn't eleborate, I assuming THEY didn't paint Mr. Wall, but were just giving standard advice? More detail would have been useful, point being - did they spin out and is that a valid for this tire ... or are they just talking? Guess a LTTE is in order.

 

im sure glad i own a set of R1's

 

^could be that they were pushing it so hard that it was terrifying, and they could not imagine it breaking loose in any other way than "fast and furious". That's what I get from what they write anyways...

Or maybe they see it in the Miata races *shrugs*

 

I thought stock tires were Bridgestones?

They are on mine. (09 R3)

 

both are delivered with the car.

 

Yep, my 09 came with Dunlops.

 

Please Mazda, all I want is a redesigned RX 7. And soon.

 

I had Dunlops.

Was it 8090 I forgot.

It was alright.

Hmm, but Im back to Bridgestone.

next year, gonna get a set of RE11. oh yeah !

 

what the hell does that have to do with the rx-8 and tires?

 

it is my thread

 

oh my appologies...please continue with random statements