D-Spec FTW!

Was it the golf or the Mazda that started the issues? Hard to tell from the ole iPhone screen

3:51 in a Miata on those hard ass tires is impressive! You're right about the lack of drama or tortured screams from them. It just seemed like brake inputs took longer and there was more lag time before getting back to the throttle than normal.

What was the corner speed delta in turn 1 between those and 200tw?

There actually were at least four or five other cars running 350+ tread wear tires. If I'm not mistaken, the black 1988 Mercedes had something like 360TW Fuzions or something or other, and they might have run more laps than the MIata. [sad face] Still you were the only car in Class D on Race Monitor, so YOU WIN! :-)

Good on you for sticking with the D-Specs, Ian. I predict a driver revolt in about 2 or 3 races, though. :-p

D-spec?   Yeah we were there.

Shaun the Sheep (844) - '87 325i w/M30B35 swap.  Ran for the first time Wed night.  Stock brakes, OE pads, stock (we think) springs (3in too high).

Our hotshoe did 3.55 on 4.5 cylinders with a couple plugged injectors Saturday.   Four Falken Sincera Touring 720-treadwear 195/65-14s.   Blew a tire and dinged a wheel in a 'contact incident' at the end of the session.

We turned up a set of Ford 19lb injectors for Sunday, and with a pair of another team's (thanks Whale) shop-transportation wheels with eight-year-old 185/60-14s Prime Well whatevers on the front he did 3.48.

Both the Sinceras and the Prime Wells look exactly like they did when we got them.   The Sinceras were near full-tread,   No chunking, minimal discernable wear, wore the corners off the tread and that's about it.   They could have been going back and forth to Wal-Mart for all we could tell. 

Of course the borrowed Prime Wells were worn to 30% before we got them, and were hard as a rock. 

We were running about 30 psi all day.    I had more trouble personally with brake-pad fade than I did with the tires.

We'll do D-spec again if it happens, just 'cause it's a cheap way to learn the car.  Our fastest driver has done some drifting, and wants to rent the skidpad for us to practice...

Next time we'll actually have spare wheels in case something happens.  It was a miracle we got on track at this event at all, much less that we ran 85% of Saturday pfft-pfft-pfft and all of Sunday on six cylinders.

Well, we need to buy new tires now to replace the blown one and a second set...but we can stay D-Spec if it happens.   Better pads and more air to the brakes though.