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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Wet or Dry, the Toyo Tires R1R Delivers

A few months of driving what was supposed to be my track car on a daily basis had morphed me into a masochist. I...

Tire Preparation Basics

Over the years, my racing team has accused me of being a real pain in the ass. This comes from my dedication to extreme...

Fitting Out a Honda Fit for HPDE

After mulling it over for some time, I decided to buy a Honda Fit for my new daily driver. I’d also thought about the...

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...

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