I don’t know if this has been on here before, I hadn’t seen it. Makes for interesting reading.
Interesting stuff. Thanks for posting.
Interesting…but I suspect that the car used in the test would also have a significant bearing on the results 
I thought the Germans lived fairly close to use in climate terms, clearly these boys live in Southern Spain…
Given the intended purpose of track day tyres is dry high performance running
They don’t frequent Oulton Park then.
I competed with Kumho rally slicks last season and they were absolutely great. I was thinking of the V70a as a set of wet tyres but based on this assessment they seem to be bottom of the pile in the wet, which is a little ironic for a wet tyre 
I agree with you Pesk, but I guess if all of the tyres were on the same car, then its a fair enough test??
Sean
Yes & no…I think! Would it be daft to think that what works “best” on a 911, may not be as good on say a Caterham, Exige, or FocusRS?
Wouldn’t it be great if Gav Kershaw could do a “blind” tyre test/comparison in an Exige? It’ll never happen though! 
If everyone on here puts in �20 (or whatever amount, maybe get seloc involved) we could get one of the uber drivers on here to test them ‘blind’. Would be interesting … we could test all the lotus cars which frequent trackdays. I would be in for it, surely it would be worth something to the lotus community …
Not a bad idea actually… Given track day tolerances and driver standards, you could probably narrow the car choices down to 750ish kilo s1… 900ish kilo S2.
If it’s any help… I can definitively say 48’s aren’t much kop on wet AstroTurf! (if it needed pointing out)
48’s are no good on a very cold damp morning at Rockingham either, my friend in his 911 thought it very funny as he lapped me again…
Or maybe just my inability to drive and lack of talent showed up more than normal
I actually love 48s in the wet. I think I am the only one though.
Yep 
Wet yes, damp and cold = horrid… 
The effectivness of the tyre is also related to the ‘weight’ applied through it vertically to the contact patch. Given that the Elise/Exige is lighter than most, a comparison using another ‘heavier’ car would not be valid.
Interesting that all the wet tests showed the Yoko to be better than the Toyo… in my experience the opposite is the case with our light cars. NO idea about the other offerings!
There was also no mention of the tyres rubbering in after 3/5 hard laps when we all know they Toyo/Yoko really start to get soft and sticky and really seem to then give a sudden and noticable inprovement in performance! This of course would not happen so easily on a cold and damp day!
Anyway, the Yoko/Toyo also look better too!
heerrrmmm, I was at Oulton 2 weeks ago in the snow … they seem ok to me. Maybe I am just slow.
I’ve found a new set of either Yokos, or Toyos, to have amazing grip on a wet track - as I was reminded of, at Oulton last Saturday.
Wet rocks !!!