Tire Testing – Behind the Scenes
What do you, the racer, track day driver or time attack competitor want from a tire? Maximum traction seems to be a good starting...
Choosing and Using Wheel Cleaners
Regardless whether you’re working on your racecar, street car, family car or tow vehicle, the wheels will get dirty. If you wash a car,...
Tuning Tires – Tracking tire temperatures and tuning your setup accordingly can pay dividends...
Whether you road race, autocross, run in Time Trial or HPDE, your goal is always to extract maximum performance from your car. Driving and...
Sized Accordingly – Understanding tire sizes and spring rates
It is important that the proper wheel width be used for a given tire size. Tire companies provide data for each tire they make,...
NASA Spec Iron Racer Tests The Hoosier RCES
In early autumn, NASA sent me a set of the new Hoosier RCES tires to evaluate them on a Spec Iron car, answer some...
Tech Matters: Back to Back
Toyo Tires offers comparison test drives in cars with its new R888R and its outgoing R888.
There’s a special feeling waking up knowing that in...
Track Tire Basics – The selection, care and feeding of racing tires
The fundamentals of racing tire management can be broken down into three areas: pre-event preparation, at the race track and on the track. Whether...
We’re Not Here to Reinvent the Wheel – We Just Wanted to Understand It...
The idea for the subject of this month’s “Tech Matters” stemmed from a shameful lack of understanding on my part about wheel offset, what...
The How and Why of NASA’s New Super Touring Tire Measurement System
The new Super Touring rules regarding section width came about because NASA tech inspectors were finding numerous tires — not just one brand or...
Taking it to The Streets: Hoosier Debuts New Track Attack Pro Tire
It has been a long time since Hoosier Racing Tire announced anything resembling a street tire. To date, Hoosier has only ever offered three...
