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yeah I went through nearly 100L of United on the weekend. it's thirsty work.

about 2/3 of a tank driving up there and I put 95 in the tank for the drive home as I had run out!

I did the shootout on fumes pretty much.

I'm not sure I will do any more TA events though - I would have to buy sticky street tyres specifically for it, and I would never use them for anything else.

I run semis for track days, so this would mean a new set of street tyres and another set of wheels to put them on.

So yep I'll probably just stick to PIARC and WRX/SAU and AROCA days I think.

After seeing the RS3s that some guys used for WTAC last year, they are toast. so that's pretty much $1k+ on tyres for one event and then throw them in the bin.

At least with the Mediums I get 8-10 track days out of them, which is usually a year for me. I pretty much run them until they fall apart :)

100L is pretty good considering you drove there and back.

I did the 2 days on KU36's and they were still like new at the end however I reckon I could have gone a couple of seconds quicker on stickier tyre's but I can't justify the money atm.

I'm in the same boat as you Adam, $1000 is a lot of money for one or 2 events when something a little harder will last a year. I think I'll leave the KU36's on till they're bald and then try something else.

^^ that's impressive.

my street tyres are Dunlop star specs. tread wear is 220 from memory. great tyres but would not be that great on a track I suspect.

to be competitive on streets you would need AD08 or RS3 I guess. maybe the new RE-11 bridgestones. nothing else will keep up quite as well.

So I would either just enter the next class up, knowing I am going to get whipped (and a higher entry fee), or forget about it entirely.

Then again in the next class up, I could remove all the seats (that is about 40kg for my car) and maybe fab up some sort of front splitter. might be worth 0.5sec a lap haha

Michael - heh I didn't drive home on E85. I was well and truly out. filled up in Benalla, I was honestly running on fumes by then.

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