which tires are best in the rain?

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me & my buddy have an argument to settle, he runs soft & super softs in the rain 'cause he says they stick better, i, using my real-life experience, use sports tires & here's why.

#1. i have drove two grossly over-powered vehicles in the rain (my '71 ford drag truck & a friends nissan maxima) with slicks on them, it's scary, really scary.

#2. slicks don't have one very important thing, tread. this is why i figure in real life, anything with tread is better than slicks in the rain.

#3. since the sports tires have tread, i thought that they would be best in the rain, 'cause in motorsports (F1, superbike or anything else) they use tires with tread on them in the rain, or more tread than "dry" tires.

so, i leave this question to you guys, which do you use? thanks.
 
Well you only have to look to a real race for that, don't you. Obviously real racing cars run treaded tires in the wet, because they have a better "penetrating" ability through the water, where as slicks would rather glide along the top of the water. If you're asking with regards to GT3, then I guess if it has an ounce of realism in that aspect, then it'd have to treads. I can't even remember a wet track from GT3 though..maybe one in the licenses, but that's all O.o
 
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This is why i figure in real life, anything with tread is better than slicks in the rain.
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No ****, Sherlock.

Why don't you take a car with T8s on to a wet track, and then take the same car with sports tyres on to the same wet track and see which one is quickest?

If you can't be bothered to do that, the answer is the T8s. GT3 gives you a different tyre when you go to the wet track. The tyre it gives you is a wet weather tyre that will be quicker than the sports one.

PS A sports tyre isn't a rain tyre just because it's got tread. A rain tyre has a diiferent and deeper tread pattern to a sports one. A sports tyre will have very little tread as tread only gives you grip when the road is slippery or wet. On a dry road, a tyre with no tread will be grippier. (But it will also be illegal, and lethal if you hit a wet patch.)
 
**** daan, ease up dude, i did not know gt3 gave you different tires for the rain tracks & i know that sports tires aren't for the rain, i just thought they might be better suited for the situation than slicks, but since gt3 does give you other tires for rain i guess i will change my ways.
 
ironically enough, in real life, it's hard to tell. falken azenis are one of the most grippy wet weather tyres i've ever seen, and they certainly don't have a tread pattern that i would have thought would lend itself to good wet weather performance

i've bought tyres that were $90ea and have been sketchy in the wet and made me scared to drive my car, and i've bought $37ea tyres that have been far more grippy in the wet, despite being a very hard compound street tyre
 
I did try the different tires on the wet SSR5 stage and the softest racing tires worked the best. I was also expecting that treaded ones would fare better, but no... :D
 
I just noticed this the other day... but when you take an F1 car to SSR5 Wet, it gives you grooved/treaded tires. The only time in the game you'll see those on an F1. If SSR5 is too dark turn the brightness up on your TV.
 
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I just noticed this the other day... but when you take an F1 car to SSR5 Wet, it gives you grooved/treaded tires. The only time in the game you'll see those on an F1. If SSR5 is too dark turn the brightness up on your TV.
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:cool: Yet another reason to keep playing GT3. :D
 

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