To me that’s the whole argument. There are a ton of performance cars at every price range. The reason you spend $200k instead of $75k is because of quality, prestige and style. For every person you convince to spend $75k on the Camaro instead of $200k on the GT, there will be someone else trying to convince them that…

Run flats have advanced an almost unimaginable amount in the last decade. Mid 2000's I knew people who bought their new sports car and immediately purchased 4 new non run flats. Now, sometimes they don’t even notice they’re run flats until it comes time to replace the first set.

Absolutely, but if you can match your driving abilities with your tires abilities, you’ll be much faster.

YES!!

I would say that if you aren’t competitive enough to care about the time gain, then there is no way to justify that purchase for you. If you’re just going to the track to have fun (and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that and I sort of envy you) spending the extra cash on track tires is a waste. You’re better…

I don’t think people who haven’t spent time actually racing or keeping times (because the stopwatch doesn’t lie) realize how much time 1sec is on track. Shaving tenths and hundredths can be the difference between being in the front or the back, and a second might as well be a mile.

Lets not also forget that the longer they run the more significant the difference would have been. They may have been 1.5-2.0sec faster on a given lap, but if they ran a full 10-15 lap session I believe the delta in times would have grown even more where the “track” tire’s characteristics would have stayed consistent…

That was the first thing I did with one of my toys and it was worth every penny. I put on a nice set of Conti Extreme Contact summers (that I got for a stupid deal) and I couldn’t be happier. After that, pads-lines-fluid and then a stiffer sway for the front and the car is exactly what I was looking for. Power levels…

You weren’t the guy I used to see around Silver Sands area with the RS6 that sounded like MTM blew on it are you?

I often find the defense and criticism of race on this site to be very odd. Megyn Kelly is hated (in part) because of her stance on Jesus (dude is obviously a brown man. Have they read the book and looked at a map?) and Santa (the guy is a fictional character, he can be any color), but they also bashed Kim K (who I am…

Exactly.

I had one for a weekend and after beating the shit out of it and driving it like a rally for 2 days, I didn’t have anything bad to say about it. It wasn’t the fastest thing in the world, but it stuck to the road.

If she is what you get from using medication and alcohol, I’ve been living my life all wrong.

That’s what I thought. Now the croc goes hungry and the wildebeest is going to be painfully miserable until it gets picked off by another carnivore.

My cat does similar, but doesn’t really like open wheel racing much.

I chased cars for years that had more performance than I could ever use on the street and more speed than was fun for the handful of trackdays I make it to a year.

I was also waiting for that.

Nothing about their new prices really made me blink an eye, but that reduction is the salmon may get me to stop by there for my fillets.

This reminds me of a situation yesterday at a friends house. When I went to the front door, they had a sign in the front yard that says, “Hate Has No Home Here.” Now, I totally agree with that, but I asked him, “Do you hate Nazi’s?” and he said “Fuck Yeah!”

I’ve been watching that show for years, and it’s always looked like the filming for Cops was a game.