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Do you swap to your autocross tires at the event or daily drive them?

I usually swap the day before the event, drive to and from the event on them, then swap back that evening or maybe the next day.

I do, however, know some people who run STX and swap their tires at the event.

I don't drive daily. So far I've only driven to/from events on my RE71's. I swapped then before a week where I had to drive to the dentist and run some errands. I doubt at this point I'm likely to swap at the event, I don't like the crowded car with tires.

Last year I daily drove on my Z2s (BS Evo X) and it was fine - the biggest issue was that I took a chunk out of a sidewall on a Tuesday and had to get a new tire before Saturday. Thankfully, Tire Rack is awesome and ships quickly.

Now I'll swap for each event, either at the event or at home depending on how far it is, just to minimize the risk of road debris ruining my weekend.

The car looks super hot on the race wheels/tires though.

http://i60.tinypic.com/14e8a5d.jpg

Now that my old Rivals are sold, my only tires for this car are RE71R and Rival-S


I put 25k on my car each year and don't drive it in the winter. I also drove to Lincoln on the tires I used for nationals last year. I don't get the point of having a set of all seasons/crap summer tires just for driving around.

Sort of neither. Last year with Hoosiers in Street-R, yes, every time, at the event. Now on 200TW, I still swap tires for the event, I just do it about a day early and might leave them on for a day after. Times like now when I have three events in three weeks, the Bridgestones are just staying on the car for the ~500 miles of street driving between events.

But, for the most part, driving 20-25k/year, I think I'm at the point where I drive enough that I'll lose (waste?) some meaningful amount of competitive life if I insisted on DD'ing on the tires I compete on. I'm not real certain of where precisely that line is, but I'm pretty sure 1500-2000miles/month of just standard driving around is on the wrong side of that line.

For local events, I swap on site.

For national events, I swap on Friday and leave them on until it's time to pack up and leave.

The OEM tire is worth about 4 MPG over the original Rival. Over my 2500 mile round trip to Lincoln that's over 10 gallons of fuel, so roughly $30 for beer money (or a good steak, Jeremy Clarkson style). It's a tight squeeze and there's no room for a passenger, but I can fit everything I need into the car.

Yup, the Michelin Primacy tire gets better mileage. I'm up in the air on nationals. I change the night before an event, drive to the event, then swap back sunday night. Next event is Sunday, but it's 80+ miles so I may swap on site.

I've been swapping on site all this year.. Running RE71s, don't want to heat cycle them or risk picking up a nail driving around on them. Plus your right the MPG would suffer.

The car isn't my DD anymore, so I just leave the competition wheels and tires on the car and drive to and from events. Very little motivation to changing them to just sit in the garage. This is specific to locals with no more than 80 miles each way. These ares supposed to be street tires and if I wanted to swap tires at every event I'd just buy some Hoosiers.

For bigger events over longer distances I will swap to my stock wheels with non-competition tires, but that has only happened twice so far.