track tyre cleanup procedure

[sambb]

Hi all,

I'm doing a hillclimb on sunday and it will be wet. I just pulled my wheels out from under the house and the tyres (AD08R's) are a bit ugly. The last hillclimb was a month ago and the tyres still have grit and grass and dirt all over them from rolling hot into the dusty/grass pit area back then and they picked up lots of crap.
Obviously with hillclimbs there is no opportunity to get heat into them or scrub them off on a warm up lap and I don't want to go up in the damp on cold tyres with that grime on them.
Any way I can clean them up? - I've seen guys with hairdryers/heat guns rubbing their tyres down with coarse rags or something before they go up. Anything like that that I can do now? - no real opportunity to get them on and back off the car before the event.
thanks
sam

[Martin]

You just have to light them up and do a small burn out
I've have seen competitors doing that approaching the start line

[seangti]

Being an AD08, why not just drive on them to the hill climb. Being a street tyre and not a semi slick, it won't take much to clean the crap off them when driving or running on the hill climb.

I now clean my wheels and tyres after a track day to remove the track contaminants before storing them. Never used to bother, but read somewhere it's best for tyre compound.

[nat225]

i tend to drive on the ad08r for a few days until they get clean enough (from all the crap picked up after the last hot laps run), then remove and wash before storing them.

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[sambb]

Sean they are on the indicators so not legal to drive 2.5 hrs to get there and can't really afford to take anymore off them. They're destined for the back when I can source some proper soft compound r specs for the front. It has been biblical storms here so to be honest I can't see myself running on them. Its an old coal road running up a forested escarpment so even if the sun comes out that day there will still be dampness at minimum, water on the track, wet leaves and sand etc. They're only for a weather miracle.
You're right though guys- lesson learned. I'll definitely scrub them clean next time.
Just thought I might be able to manually scrub them clean somehow. Pre start burnout will have to do. Maybe if I do two, it'll single wheel alternate tyres so I can clean both. hehe

[kaanage]

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