Tyres? What do you use?

[Adam43]

Ah! The black art! Which tyres do you use? what experiences do you have?

We race an Jaguar XJS in a "standard" class. The rules state that the tyres should be road legal (but this is just the tread).

The tyres we use are 235 x 50 x 16" Pirelli P6000. Although we have raced on a combination of Michelins and Dunlops.

They seem to be pretty good. The car moves around a bit more when they are (very) hot, but they are pretty consistent front to back. We haven't found anything that we like too much in the wet.

We have found that they are at there best with a couple of mm of tread left.

Most others in our racing are in a similar boat and there is a large range of tyres out there. Some say that normal road tyres are good enough and I wonder what tyres you lot have experience of. How much advatage is there from buying a race tyre (albeit a treaded one). And what's the best wet one? - We are begining to think the P6000s are not that hot in the wet!

Anyway there is some of my experiences! What rubber do you use? Obviously I'm more interested in similar cars (road going) with similar tyres, but I'm not fussy!!! We can't get out there and test all the tyres!