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Originally Posted by ZDan
Not really. One of my students last year had done a skidpad school on the OEM Primacies and says he spun like 50 times (OK maybe 20...)! He didn't want to turn off stability control at the track for fear of spinning on 215 RE71R tires. But the fact is the RE71R has a TON more grip while sliding than the OEM Primacies. So we at least got to run "track mode", though I think he would have been totally fine with the "5 second hold" on TC button or with the "pedal dance".
The car is way easier to control at and beyond the limit on good sticky tires than the OEM tires. Yes, you will be going faster when you start to slide, but the residual grip is SO much greater that control is easier to maintain.
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I respectfully disagree. I have driven both (Primacy and RE71).
And while it's true that the RE71 have a lot more grip while sliding than the OEM that doesn't make them easier to control. That's because the difference in grip between "not sliding and sliding" is higher with the RE71 than the OEM. So when you start sliding you need to react much quicker with the grippier tire. That's why it's so easy to control a slide in snow or rain, in general the less grip you have, the more time you have to react, and the less violent is the change in lateral accelaration from grip/slide/grip.
The reason a beginner would slide/spin a lot more in the OEM than grippier tire is easy to figure out. It's probably because he overdrove the OEM and underdrove the RE71.