And those Prius tires are about the worst tires to track on. If they would have swapped out the Prius tires for better performance summer tires I suspect the outcome would have been different:
http://www.roadandtrack.com/special-...transformation
With the stock tires the FR-S was easily last against a Speed3 and WRX. After changing out to better performance tires, the FR-S was first.