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These "street" tires were said in the article to run $1500/each!
Wow!
These are very special "street tires".
Racing slicks with track-specific warm-weather compounds are ordinarily required to exceed 1.2 g. My IROC car can do about 1.2 g on slicks on a warm summer day at Mid-Ohio in a turn with some slight super-elevation.
1.2 g would never be possible with broad temperature range tires that have rain treads on an ordinary car.