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I have to say the new STF class the yaris is in, is insane.. Here is a post from my first event of the year in my region. It was a really big turnout. a few people were there that are not normally there from up north which bumped my Pax placement down a few.
ANYway, I placed 29th place out of 72 in RAW time. placed 6th place in Pax time.. crazy http://buccaneerregion.com/ce-1-12.html I just got back from Jacksonville Florida where they just had their 2nd event of the year. http://buccaneerregion.org/jax-2-12.html 1st place in my class out of 3 others, 2 drivers in a Fit and me 10th place Raw time out of I think 50 drivers 1st place in pax out of + or - 50 drivers what a weekend..
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2ZR swap. DO IT! Ask how!
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I love the PAX times results: Mustangs at the bottom, small imports at the top!
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Can't understand why they keep adding more Classes, doen't it kinda dilute the car counts and spread them really thin?
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I agree, its insane how many classes there are. I will say, We dont have a "Street Tire" class in savannah, but Jacksonville added their own tire class with stock class. I guess so it gives the newbies off the street a fighting chance against the guys in stock class with Rcomp tires.
but, I do it for fun and becoming a better driver. When you start trying to argue about classes though, it brings the fun out of the sport. I will leave that to the "national's" peoples
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Guess I'm just used to the good old days, when we had Stock, Street Prepared, Prepared, and Modified, thats all. Most everyone ran Novice on street tires, then R compounds when they moved to Stock or Street Prepared. I was forced by lack of funds to run street tires at the '84 Solo Nationals and still wasn't last in class, but pretty close!!
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I would sell Girl Scout cookies, in a skirt, to fund R comps.... there's no turning back....
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I swear these Hankook RS-3's are so close to R comps its retarded. EVERYBODY is running these tires in ST class right now. IF I had a turbo or swap motor, I would run R comps also.. nothing beats them
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Todays R-compounds are like the slicks of the 80s and early 90s, with the street tires better than the Rs we used to run! The Toyo RA-1 we still run today is about the only tire that hasn't changed in years!
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http://buccaneerregion.org/jax-2-12.html
Sunday Autox event at Jacksonville. 1st in pax.. They will probably redo the pax for next year in the STF class. Its kinda unfair. lol. either that or I am just that good.. hahaha
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a new business opportunity?
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So wish I could be running events right now... we're still around the freezing mark and have snow on the ground up here :(
Congrats on doing well!
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^I am surprised you dont have rally events during times like these. I would be all over that also.
Thanks.
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I am not saying R comps are not amazing.. I used to run them on my CRX in SSM class.. But I am trying to stick with STF class with my yaris.
Which Toyo tire are you talking about? Both Proxes 4 and T1 are only available in 18" and 19" from tirerack right now. I dont see any other tires that are worth anything.. *EDIT* I found proxes 4 at another dealer also in 225/50/15.. Are those the one's you are talking about? If I put on R comps, That will throw me in the Street Prepared class and I cannot throw more money in that class to be competitive. I'd like to stick with the STF class at least for the rest of this year.
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The 195-50-15 is the magic size that is crushing everything else.
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wow.. Awesome.. thanks for that info.. I will look further into these. May try these out in a few months
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I ran R1R's on my car, they were great, sticky enough and PREDICTABLE.
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I ran R1R's a couple years ago for time attacks. Very good. Didn't need warming up, and kicked butt in the rain ( with full tread). I get Grassroots Motorsports magazine, and according to tests the Rs3 outperform, but I haven't been on them yet. Seems like all the small cars out here run either R1R's or Rs3's, and the larger cars like STIs and Bimmers swear by Star specs.
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