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Originally Posted by Wepeel
Very interesting. Looks like it's mid-80's to 90 in Lincoln. And one of the courses is a long 70+ sec course - and the RX-8 isn't particularly light. Also looks like the RX-8 coned away a very fast run on Day 1 on the 3rd run - so apparently heat wasn't an issue...
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I'm with you on that, the RX-8 (Jeff Hurst) winning on Toyos was a little surprising to me, but STX did run first group. Was it already 85-90 degrees at 9:00 AM there? In addition, Jeff didn't have a co-driver and there was a good amount of time between runs, so maybe that was the ticket?
Anyway, I was mostly just sharing info from observations and conversations I've had to explain why people don't run Toyos more often in STR/STU/STX/RT*. I've co-driven with Michael Kuhn (Finished 10th in STX on Rivals) before and he has run all the hot street tires at one time or another on various surfaces. There were rare times when the Toyos worked well for him, but he preferred the RS3 and Rivals on his RX-8. He mostly cited heat being the downfall of the Toyos for him. Maybe he needs to rethink that since Jeff's RX-8 got first and he was in 10th! Or maybe Jeff Hurst is just awesome and would have run well on any of the top street tires!
