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Originally Posted by Racecomp Engineering
I wish there were a streetable and street legal rally type tire available in reasonable sizes, but that doesn't seem to exist.
We end up using winter tires over here for rallycross when we can't use real gravels. The tread blocks are pretty good, but they've got mushy sidewalls and soft rubber. Some of them are still pretty quick...some of them aren't very good. I've only used them on very soft and compliant dirt and I don't think they'd last long on a very gravelly abrasive surface like yours.
- Andrew
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Yeah, it's a real frustration, the gap between a proper rally spec tyre and a usable road tyre, especially in timed rallycross type events.
I'm a little bit jealous of your winter tyres...they simply don't exist down here.
Luckily I'm not chasing times (its pointless against 4wd cars, and on a track that goes from slippery to mega grippy) so its just for for fun going stupid quickly sideways.
So after this last effort Ive decided I'm just going to get some cheap/rubbish Chinese road tyres on a spare set of rims for the rally circuit days.
Its also more the construction of this track too as it wears through the day....most of our gravel roads are nowhere near as tough on the car (and of course you can be %100 stupid on a track too
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