Used to run Avon ZZR's on my car but fancied these to help give my wallet a break! Plus I'd heard good reviews, which seemed to be backed up online, so I had high expectations.

I had my Puma at a track day at Oulton Park and I was immediately impressed by the cold grip levels. As I got a few more laps under my belt it became obvious that the grip levels were increasing markedly and I could feel my lap times started tumbling (not that I was recording them). I noticed I could carry much more speed into the faster corners and had so much more traction out of the slower corners - the car's attitude through the chicane was transformed. I could keep the throttle in harder through the whole section instead of waiting for the grip before flooring it. After a day's hard lapping I didn't notice a drop-off in performance, either (although my brakes were screaming for mercy towards the end!), so these seem like a very durable tyre.

I'll definitely be buying these again when the time comes to renew. Might have to look at my pad compound and some better brake fluid before the next track day, though!

E46-M3 SUZUKA INTERNATIONAL RACING COURSE
JULY 7, 2017 Test report
The weather on the day is sunny.
Road surface temperature 43degrees C to 46degrees C.
This time we changed the setting of the suspension based on the previous test.
Although I was able to increase the mechanical grip more than the previous time, I could not update the best time due to the rise in the temperature and the deterioration of the road condition.
The best time of the day is 2'24 "8.
There was no big grip drop for the total 20 laps.

been running A050s, AD08Rs, RSRR, RS3 and Ive got to say these tyres arent that far behind the mighty AO50s. Braking and initial turn is fantastic. Tremedous grip for Value, I doubt Ill buy any other tyre for my Trackdays

AMazing cannot rate them high enough.. corner speed is so much faster than the Dunlop Dereza

I use the ns2-r for fast road and the ar-1 for track

Ran these tyres at the Nurburgring last year instead of the NS2-R, they took some time to heat up but once they did they are fantastic, wet weather use is a bit sketchy but other than that I cannot fault these tyres.

I got a set of four 265/35/18 tyres for track use and first got a chance to test them last week at Bedford on the GT Circuit. It was my first time on track tyres and since my last track day, I'd also got HSD Monopro coilovers, with professional geometry, corner weighting, and a full alignment.

To say that the new setup made a difference would be the understatement of the century. I'm glad I have bucket seats, as otherwise I'd have fallen off my seat round every corner. The tyres felt predictable, gave good feedback, and were quite progressive on the limit. While learning the circuit and getting the feel for the limit, I went sideways quite a lot, and it was FUN! However, I didn't but these to go sideways, obviously, I wanted to be fast. During the whole track day, the only car to pass me was another e46 M3, which was fully track prepped, stripped to the shell with a cage, Nitron coilvers, BBK, and Toyo R888R tyres. He was 3 seconds a lap quicker than my 2min : 52sec best.

I'll definitely buy these again when the time comes.