There are many, many stickier tires than R888r, but the question is what is your use case? Are you doing time trials, drag racing, autocross, track days? The R888r is a reasonable choice for only one of these... And it's not anything competitive.
5k miles from an R888r won't happen unless you're just doing street driving on warm, dry days. Expect about 600 track miles or 20 to 24 sessions out of it, with most grip being gone by session 10. Session 11 will be a full second slower than session 1. By session 20 it will take 3 to 4 laps to build heat and grip will fall off by lap 7 or 8.
Drag racing.some no prep races
For drag racing the R888r are a waste of money. The alignment and temps they need are not inline at all for that use case.Drag racing.
Why not the M&H Racemasters you sold me?
I asked a muscle car friend about his drag strip uses and he says mickey Thompsons are still at the top of the radar for drag stuff.Yeah, have a few no prep heads up races this season. Not particularly worried about life as long as it’s practical enough to drive to the track and back for them. Not dealing with swapping wheels/tires every event. I don’t even put more than 15-20 miles a week on my car on average. Just has to be a DOT tire.
Nevermind, you said QuattroYou can also get an extra factory spare to run on the rears...
All too wide.I asked a muscle car friend about his drag strip uses and he says mickey Thompsons are still at the top of the radar for drag stuff.
https://www.mickeythompsontires.com/drag-tires
Looks like they have the et street s/s and the more extreme et street r as the dot legal category.
They sell the ET street R in a 245, that's too wide?All too wide.