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Warning!!!! Silverstone tyres

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Warning!!!! Silverstone tyres

Post by spudep91 » Thu May 19, 2016 11:21 am

As above do not purchase silverstone slick tyres in hard compound (or any other compound i'd imagine) drokking brutal was like driving on ice first half of session which is understandable but what came after they got heated up some wasn't much better. Absolutely brutal tyre. My mistake for not reading up on them before i bought them. :cry:

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Post by Merlin » Thu May 19, 2016 11:46 am

That is the danger of slick tyres. If you don't have a car capable of handling them they are dangerous. Do you have a warm up procedure to get heat in your brakes and then into your tyres before you begin to go for it?
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Post by Dino » Thu May 19, 2016 1:05 pm

The cut slicks also have the tendancy to de-laminate. Wouldnt touch Silverstones

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Post by spudep91 » Fri May 20, 2016 2:08 am

Yea merline done 2x 20 minute sessions to get heat into them driving half easy. There just pure Clubbing Eddy. Unbelievable they are jobby. I never had problems with slicks before. 5/6 laps and they would of been mint. Could of through it as hard as you wanted into a corner and theyed of stuck. These are on an other leavel of badness.

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Post by spudep91 » Fri May 20, 2016 2:12 am

Also i might add there was a tyer boy down at the track and half way through the day i went to him and said wtf is up with these tyers. He laughed and said i have a stack of them in the shed i dont even bring because there crap and cant sell them

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