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GP1 track tire choices

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Old 10-11-2016, 04:02 PM
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R53 rotors are soo cheap I'm OK with that I would trade rotor life for longer pad life any day of the week
 
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Not sure how long the pad life is on a race pad.

Interestingly, the pads for my Wilwoods cost about the same as the rotors...

My last time out I ran the Hawk blues on the rear with the Wilwood Poly H race pad up front and, at first, the Hawks sounded like I had installed a set of bastard cut metal files in the rear. But when they had a few laps on them, they settled down and worked quite well. The Hawks did generate more heat than the Carbotech XP8s did. So they appeared to have taken up a larger share of the braking than I had with the Carbotechs. No tail wag either...
 
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I've been running DTC-60's, both front and rear, for at least 5 or 6 years now with excellent pad and rotor life. I usually get a full season out of both running at least 4-6 HPDE's/year.
 
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Duplicate post.
 

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what tires you run with the dtc-60's ?
 
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I have a set of Bridgestone RE-71R's that I use for rain tires and a set of Nitto NT-01's for in the dry.
 
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