http://www.hankooktireusa.com/pdf/uploads/Z214.pdf

Three different compounds. Supposed to be coming out Q2 2005 so I guess we'll see it around 2007?

Any thoughts?

 

I hope they perfrom like Hoosiers, last even longer than toyos, and cost as much or less than funken Azenis ($70).

 

Sean,

I'll be running them along with Ian Carpenter, Andrew Zimmerman, and Leo **** (all four of us are running H4 Integras).

I hope to have a set for the first SCCA MARRS race in April. the tire is claimed to be just as fast in testing as the Hoosiers.

IM Ian....he will have more information !

Regards,

Jon P. Kofod

 

Hey Jon, I'd thought I'd find you over here. So how are those tires working for ya?


Will

AKA "Solipsist" from FCHAT

 

Im not sure if these are the same tires the USTCC guys now run, but if they are, they recivied them on march 3 (thursday). I asked them if they were they haven't responded yet

 

The new Hankook sticky compound is fast but last somewhere around what you would expect from a Hoosier from what I have read. Some of the "front runners" in the very competitive Spec Miata in SCCA are switching to Hankooks which I am sure half of it may be sponsorship/subsidy but they would not run it if it could not hang with the Hoosiers. Looks like a tire war is heating up or something which usually means more $$$$$$ to go racing.

Hankook kind of screwed things up though for series that had spec tires that listed a range of tires including the Hankook for longevity and bang for the buck (as in not Hoosier). They used the new softer compound on the same casing and model number as the "regular" Ventus and made policing a bitch.

Barry H.

 

never mind the USTCC guys are using these Hankook Ventus RSS Z211

 

BUMP. Yeah, you guys thought this was another Z212 thread and were itching to **** down my throat, didn't ya?

Searching Google, apparently some distributors have 'em already. I'm curious why Discount Tire stopped carrying the Z211s. Apparently its the same compound as the Z211's (check http://www.hankooktireusa.com/...e.pdf for all the available compounds and whatnot).

Who knows the SCCA ruling on tire availability date and whatnot?

Nice to see Hankook step up to the plate here.

 

Hmmm, but are 205s enough tire for an H1 car?

 

matt i'm gonna be mean.....

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not the way you drive....

 

I'm still disappointed that no tire company other than hoosier offers a true DOT rain tire.