Anglesey was a good fun day but I was pretty disappointed, I had issues with tyres that could have been avoided. I'd been complaining how poor the yoko A048 tyres I had on the front where for a while, but I just put it down to the cold wet weather and that they where the medium hard compound so I couldn't get any heat into them on the road.
Once out on track in the morning it was damp, so I just couldn't get any grip so braking was poor as was understeer and wheel spin. As it started to dry out I was becoming aware it should be gripping much better than it was, so I checked the front tyres (pretty bald) and swapped them for the rears (healthy)
And went back out for another lap or so. It was immediately like somebody had put space saver rear wheels on and the car was just a drift machine lol. The braking and front end traction was completely transformed though.
I came in again and put my rear road tyres (ditch finders) on to see how they fared and whilst much better they were still awful compared to the fronts.
So the rest of the day became a bit of a mess around tbh drifting and trying to push the brakes to see how they would cope.
I'll be sourcing a new set of tyres for the next track day so hopefully it won't be an issue again!
Now, on to the brakes. One word sums them up, FAULTLESS.
Granted, I couldn't push them in the morning due to the tyres being shot. But they got plenty of action and the pads look nearly new, the pads are fantastic (performance friction 08 compound) fantastic bite characteristics, great feel and they were not harsh on the discs at all! Whilst the pads are expensive (and the cost of the BBK to remember) it's not a cheap solution but I should get a good few track days out of the pads now so worth while investment and more cost effective in the long run.
I have a few pics and videos that I'll post up as soon as I can.
