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Counter-intuitive tyre wear...
Rear tyres after about 300km (186 miles) from new. (Pirelli P1's with with a 1.5 OS Giken LSD fitted)
Of that total, aprox 110km (66miles), over two seperate days, on a dirt rally circuit is what did the damage.
The circuit is run clockwise.... the inside rear is the most worn, the outside rear, much less so.
Its interesting and a bit counter-intuitive, as its seemingly the outside tyre that is doing all the hard work.
But, the inside rear is actually being dragged sideways, with much less weight on it, so is actually only using 30% of the tread face of the tyre...spinning across deep embedded rocks.
The outside wheel is using near %100 of its tread face, and is not dragging so much as sort of "digging" as it slides.
The circuit starts with a nice slippery gravel surface... which is quickly cut through after a couple of hours, leaving embedded rock is utterly brutal on road tyres (rally tyres being banned because they destroy the circuit base)
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