I suspected that was drag racing lingo but unfortunately that is not anything I know about. Never even seen a drag strip in my life except on TV. Lol. I know how the tires perform on a road course and drove them in a limited capacity on the street so I know they are reasonably quiet. Have probably gone through 15 sets on the track so I know how they perform there. Nitto makes some drag radials in a 305/35/18 which might be more of what he's looking for. The NT01 is a road course tire...

 

No, not Drag racing. But forward acceleration with a heavy throttle (eg exit ramps, highway pulls, etc.). I do lose traction with R888's, but rarely. Few drivers will track their cars. Most are street driven and that's where I'm interested to know what tire is better. I have both, but the NTo1's were fairly worn when I added the power. The R88's are horrid in the rain BTW.

 

When at temperature, NT01s stick well enough that they will actually rotate slightly on the rim even when dry mounted, hairsprayed, glued, whatever. I've tried it all but they would still rotate slightly under acceleration and also under hard braking in excess of 1G. I ended up switching to wheels that had machine "knurled" beads that lock the tires in place.

 

Thanks again pwdrhound!

 

Well looks like the Nt01 will go on. No R888's. I'll report back my findings

 

I ended up with r888 again. Maybe I'll try the nt01 next time.

Tire shop couldn't get anything originally, then I called another one and they could. Weird, they were both discount tire.