Now there's also the Rival and RE-11A with 200 UTQG. It seems like 200 UTQG is the new 140 UTQG...

 

I seriously thought this was an April fools joke until I Googled and found the 200TW rating on Hankook's website.

 

photo or it didnt happen

 

After you mentioned it, i checked my tires!
my fronts were 140 (225/45/17), and rears are 200 (255/40/17)!!
what the..??
I bet the shop didn't even know!

 

Success!

Hankook may be in on it

 

Are all four of yours 200 Mike?

 

And people say tire companies don't pay attention to SCCA rules....

 

I think Lemons and Chump have as much if not more to do with it. I knew teams that were going through piles of Star Specs in a weekend.

But cool that they are listening!

 

Yup


3312, 3612 production dates.

 

This x2 We go through 2-3 sets of tires per lemons weekend. Typically we bring 2 new sets and one set of leftover scrubs just in case. On an average race weekend there are 140-160 teams. Usually 40% of whom are on one of the "fast street tires" I.E. Star specs or back in the day RT615's. With the Lemons season approaching 25 events per year thats a lot of tire sales they were giving up.