Originally Posted by Momentum,Mar 26 2010, 08:24 AM

I'm about to buy some tires for my time attack car. I'm sure most of you guys know the format is 5 laps (in, 3 hot, out) best lap counts. This format is pretty far outside my typical racing experience so I am up in the air about what tires to buy. Last year I used R6's for the one race I attended and as you can imagine that was a huge mistake. I think maybe the autox guys might even have a better answer to this question. If you ignore wear and cost all together and take into account that you only have 2 laps to get the tire up to temp what is the best performing tire?

My setup:

F: 18x10 - last tire was a 285/30R18 Hoosier R6
R: 18x11 - last tire was a 315/30R18 Hoosier R6

I'm thinking Hankook F200s in their softest compound (basically impossible to find) or Hoosier A6's but if anyone has any personal experience that would be awesome.

My car weighs a little over 2600 with me in it and is a 50/50 split, with the R6's it was a perfect balance.