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Originally Posted by strat61caster
Source for the 2.1 second RE050A claim? Speaking in abstract numbers the RE-11 only picked up 2.5s on SOW, surprising a tire supposedly a class down is only a few tenths slower.
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I'll have to search for it later tonight. It was posted a while back on this site. The test was at Hockenheim short course. I think there was another test showing ~1.5 second improvement switching to MP tires. Really stretching my memory here though.
RE050A's are 140 TW tires as you mentioned, which is actually lower than all of the top EP street tires. TW is a bit of a farce though as we all know. RE11's aren't really that competitive in the EP tire category, so I can kind of believe it. I would also imagine driver and course will affect results too. Lots of factors at play.