About 20k miles ago a bought a set of Nitto NT05s and they have been amazingggg, but I can't really afford to be replacing them so often, so my question is, is there another tire out there with similar performance/all around characteristics of the NT05 but with a longer life, I just cant afford replacing them every year. Its my DD but I also do autoX and road racing

 

They are pretty soft and have a tread depth of about 7/32", while your average street tire is about 10/32" tread depth. With that said, doing AX and the scurge of ALL mankind.... road racing , you are getting just about what you should.

If you want to maintain the traction you have, I recommend you run something less expensive on stockers or a second set of wheels. Then keep the NT05's for AX days and give up road racing or take it to the track before someone gets hurt or killed by such a stupid endeavor!

Jazzer

 

By road racing i meant like road-track racing, like F1 tracks, that type of thing, u know the safe sanctioned kind lol. I understand that I will loose some performance switiching tires but I'm ok with that, I just want something that will last maybe 40k miles instead and have close to the same grip/stregnth

 

Cool, I am happy to hear that you are talking about closed-course road racing

Switching tires is what I do for Winter and Summer use. In fact, I brought my second set of wheels to get a fresh new set of R888's just today. I ran my last set of them starting this time last year and got about 10 HPDE days and a day around Infineon. I figure probably another 6K on the street and they were dead. My bill tomorrow will be upwards of $1900 or so for another year of the same thing.

Jazzer on new-shoes blues