Run To The Coast Iii Tire
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For starters, it’s important to note that the American Street Car Series does limit all competing participants to a 200-tread wear tire. Since we’re not technically competing and instead participating as an exhibition car, those requirements really don’t apply. At this year’s Run to the Coast III outing, we decided to change up the rubber on our C5 Z06 and evaluate a set of 100-treadwear Toyo Proxes R888s. To say they worked well wouldn’t do these shoes any justice whatsoever; in all reality, they flat-out performed admirably. For the front we stuck with the 275R35-18 and stepped up from the previous 295R35-18 out back and went with a slightly wider 305R35-18 rubber. On the autocross, we ran a respectable 42.725 and 1:48.6 on the 1.8-mile road course (unfortunately, we don’t have the Speed-Stop-Squared Challenge numbers). The final verdict: The Toyo Proxes R888 is an incredibly fun tire, and we can honestly say that this is the hardest we’ve pushed our Z06. The lateral grip was enough to feel like you were dr View Related Article
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