What's your favorite brand of drag/Race tire and why?

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Kumho 710s or Yokohoma A032R. The Falken are great, but are street legal race slicks. Great for Auto-X, but on the track I want a full race tire.
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Well now that I have had about 10 passes on my Mickey Thompsons......I love em!! ET Drags all the way!
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Got Nitto 555's on Cobra, its decent drag radial
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i used my drag radial to the core this year, they're ok, but first will allways spin, a bit in second too...
i tried myckey thompson 15'' and they are JUST SICK, no wheelspin, even when declutching at 7k rpm
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I used to run M/T ET Drag slicks (26x8.5x15), and they were good. I switched to Hoosier slicks last year (drag racing, i should add) because they offered a slightly wider (9") slick in 26x9x15. I like the Hoosier better, they require a much shorter burnout to get hot than the M/Ts. They wear extremely well, and are a good FWD slick. I launch at 5500 rpm and i've gotten the best short time/high speed stability combo at 5.5 psi air pressure. I used to run the M/Ts at 6.75 psi.
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cjthor wrote:Well now that I have had about 10 passes on my Mickey Thompsons......I love em!! ET Drags all the way!


What size tire and what pressure were you running... I got the 24.5x8 on 15's. I'm assuming you had to run a tube too.
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Another good slick to look into for FWD drag racing is the M&H Racemaster. It comes in some very friendly size and is bias ply in construction. I'm a pretty big fan of ET drags as well
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nope-mx3 wrote:I`m gonna use Toyo R888 on 15`s for trackdays.

Drag is imho useless :)

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im trying to find some R888 myself, but they are kind of expensive here. Maybe going to try Falken's bet
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