2021 Track Day 200TW Tyre Test

For the 2021 Tyre Reviews 200 treadwear Track Tyre Test we have selected eight of the the most popular 200tw track focused performance tyres and have access to Michelin's Laurens proving ground in South Carolina, which has a very fast, high grip, dry handling test track.

You can either watch the full test video for all the glorious shots of the beautiful E36 M3 test car, or scroll down to read the full results.

200TW Track Tyre Test

We're going to be testing each tyre to find out which is the fastest over a single lap, which tyre has the best heat management on track over multiple laps, which tyre gives you the best steering response, and which gives you the most confidence to drive at the limit.

To keep things as fair as possible, we have three sets of new control tyres so we can run a control tyre at the beginning, the same tyre again after set four, and another set at the end to calculate for driver and track evolution. All tyres will be started at exactly the same 30 psi cold.

The test vehicle is a beautiful E36 BMW M3 Lightweight, which thanks to a lightweight chassis, a normally aspirated engine and hydraulic power steering, should be a really wonderful test car and relatively representative of what people use on track and at autocross events.

There are sadly a few key tyres missing. There's no bridgestone RE71R because it's been discontinued in North America and Bridgestone don't plan to replace it, there's no toyo because the R888R is 100tw and the R1R is extremely old, and we couldn't get the Nexen N Fera SUR4 or the new Continental ExtremeContact Force in time for this test.

Dry

The lap times below are taking from the test video, for an explanation of the data please watch from 6:37.

Results