A big welcome to Hotchkis Performance - our newest podcast show sponsor! Many of you know John Hotchkis as a pioneer in our industry - and he's definitely a person to credit for the fun we get to have today. Be sure to check them out at
hotchkis.net. For a full interview with John Hotchkis on how he built his company, check out the
Cars For A Living Podcast Show (Episode #10).
Our Trip to the BFGoodrich Rival Tire Debut in New Orleans!
Bill Howell and Bill Goldberg wait their turn to run the MX-5 on the skidpad.
Feature News:
BFGoodrich Rival Tire Debut
Our news segment is sponsored by the fantastic hot rod wiring supply company, Ron Francis Wiring
, and we're very appreciative that they were our FIRST EVER show sponsor, and the first sponsor to re-sign for 2013!
The big news....
Of course, the big news to share is that since our last show Larry and I were invited to attend the BFGoodrich Rival tire debut in New Orleans, held at the NOLA Motorsports Park. During our show we described the four segments of the event specifically, but the gist of it is that we were asked to evaluate the BFG tire against competing tires on subjective things like turn-in ability, recovery ability, lap consistency, and wear.
Without a doubt (and we went into great detail in in the show), the new BFG Rival is clearly aiming at becoming the tire of choice in our sport. It's a 200 tread wear tire that meets the entrance requirements of every event we like to run, and it performs nearly as well as it's 40-tread wear cousin tire (The BFGoodrich R1 S) in nearly every category while somehow magically having the wear characteristics of a much harder tire. After a day of autocrossing the BFG's they showed nearly no tread wear loss, while some competing tires (Hankook Ventus R-S3 and Toyo Proxes R1R) appeared to be ready for the dumpster...
