Track day tyre advice
Discussion
I ran my R1 with a plug on track, never faltered once!
I also fitted one to my P-Zero on the GT. That went out on track.
If the tyre is good and the puncture is within safe limits, then plug it up. No point in wasting money!!!
Check the inside first though, to check the foreign body hasn’t damaged the tyre.
I also fitted one to my P-Zero on the GT. That went out on track.
If the tyre is good and the puncture is within safe limits, then plug it up. No point in wasting money!!!
Check the inside first though, to check the foreign body hasn’t damaged the tyre.
Have done it both ways -- ran with a screw in the tyre on a track day - at Goodwood - thoughts are that it was picked up on the track as I took the car down to Portsfield for a knocking sound mid way throug teh day and they put it on ramp.
Couple of months later ran it with a plug in a silverstone - tyres coped with my bad driving.
Couple of months later ran it with a plug in a silverstone - tyres coped with my bad driving.
I am such a wuss with this kind of thing that I would fit 2 new tyres on that axle.....I would hate to bend the car thinking, what if I had fitted tyres i could totally be confident in.
If you can afford the luxury of a track day, the absolute safety of the car you are driving should be your first priority IMHO etc...
If you can afford the luxury of a track day, the absolute safety of the car you are driving should be your first priority IMHO etc...
Personaly I wouldn't use a repaired tyre on track. The tyre experience loads and temperatures that are far greater on track compared with road use.
I would change both tyres on that axel and save the ones taken off as spares.
In fact if you do a few trackdays I'd buy 4 cheap wheels and put track tyres on them.
I would change both tyres on that axel and save the ones taken off as spares.
In fact if you do a few trackdays I'd buy 4 cheap wheels and put track tyres on them.
Indeed just as tonyt said your tyres are gunna take a hammering & not sure id trust the rubber bung to heat up at the same rate as the tyre & not pop out/or pop in/ or wear out or somat, given that its doesnt take that much abuse to get ya tyres to look like this-
You could of course be fine, esp if you dont dive hard, but the results of the bung popping out & you having a very rapidly deflating tyre on track doesnt really bear thinking about.
Im a cheapskate & yet the only way I'd really want to use a repaired tyre on track- & that would be at a push, would be on the rear of a fwd car on the right hand side (assuming it was a conventional clockwise track) as it would get the minimum of heating up & abuse. Given you have RWD however id replace the tyre- or prefereably the pair & keep them in the garage for road use.
You could of course be fine, esp if you dont dive hard, but the results of the bung popping out & you having a very rapidly deflating tyre on track doesnt really bear thinking about.
Im a cheapskate & yet the only way I'd really want to use a repaired tyre on track- & that would be at a push, would be on the rear of a fwd car on the right hand side (assuming it was a conventional clockwise track) as it would get the minimum of heating up & abuse. Given you have RWD however id replace the tyre- or prefereably the pair & keep them in the garage for road use.
Bit of a silly question may be, but just what would happen if the repair did fail? Considering it's a screw puncture, even if the hole did suddenly appear again, wouldn't the tyre take minutes or more rather than seconds to deflate? In which case, the worse that could happen was that you'd waste the rest of the day. Surely you'd notice something's wrong and stop driving before the rubber's completly disappeared?
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