![]() The beasty Challenger is not quite as spry as the WRX but modern muscle cars have come a long way in the handling department. Upon exiting a turn the tire’s sidewall quickly snapped back, waiting for the next corner to come. With the Comp-2 installed the WRX stuck to the pavement hard and the response was so quick that I often found myself needing to wait longer than I expected before I initiated a turn. The vehicle’s balance is excellent and it handles like a well fit baseball glove. Driving the WRX STI is like driving an AWD go cart with a lot more power and a much more sophisticated suspension. This was a great opportunity for us to feel how the Comp-2’s sidewall reacted and responded under very different vehicles.įirst up was the WRX STI. These two vehicles are drastically different in balance, weight and size. We made our way over to the dry autoX track and found ourselves whipping around the tight corners in a 2012 AWD Subaru WRX STI and a 2012 RWD Challenger SRT8. This is something that many of us, as enthusiasts, can’t live without.Īfter a quick lunch break Matt and I couldn’t wait to get back out on the track. With these improvements, the Comp-2 seemingly begs you to push it harder and faster. They didn’t tell us exactly how they did it but they described the improvements as a type of internal tension system that helps keep the contact patch optimized at high speed. BFG has made changes to the carcass of the new Comp-2 to specifically improve its high speed performance. Big sweeping corners and fast straight-aways allowed us to feel the Comp-2‘s internal construction help to balance the vehicle while keeping the tread planted on the track. The Comp-2 did an excellent job of holding our line. Next up, the high speed road course! We reached speeds exceeding 90mph in a 2012 Camaro SS. YouTube Clip: BFG G-Force Sport Comp-2 0-60-0mph brake test - YouTube This could very easily mean the difference between getting in an accident and avoiding an accident. Our group’s 0-60-0 test yielded stopping distances that averaged 9 feet shorter than the competitor’s tire on the dry track. Our group first headed over to put the ABS to work on a new 2012 Challenger SRT8. Needless to say, with BFG’s claims, Matt and I were excited to feel the improvements first hand. To put that into perspective, a 3% improvement would be easy for a pro driver to notice, an 8% improvement would be noticeable by most enthusiast drivers and a 12% difference would be noticeable by almost all levels of drivers. With improvements from the inside out, BFG claims their new Comp-2 yields an 8% gain in dry traction, and an astonishing 30% gain in wet traction over the g-Force Sport. So what’s new? To really see it, you’ve got to drive it. The tread design looks almost identical but the sidewall is a little cleaner and smoothed out. We then split into groups and rotated through 4 different test stations, the 0-60-0 test, a high speed road course, a short course dry autoX track and a short course wet autoX track.Īt first glance the new BFG g-Force Sport Comp-2 doesn’t look much different than the g-Force Sport it’s replacing. They described its improvements over the original g-Force Sport and talked about where it sits now compared to similar tires in the Ultra High Performance Category (UHP). ![]() We started the morning off with a presentation describing the new BFG g-Force Sport Comp-2. BFGoodrich had a team of engineers, some marketing and support staff and a grip of their test/pro drivers out for the day. 31st and were out on the track the following morning by 9am. So away we went, we landed in Ontario, CA mid afternoon on Tuesday Jan. We were told that as long as we could get the all clear to attend from home base (Corporate) everything else would be taken care of. We knew very little about the new tire and very little about what BFG had planned for the launch. Matt and I, a couple of automotive enthusiasts from Discount Tire, had the chance to attend the BFG g-Force Sport Comp-2 product launch at Fontana Raceway in California a few weeks ago. Not once have I ever heard a tire manufacturer tell a group of, by no means professional, drivers “Don’t wussy foot it” (edited). I’ve tested a number of tires from a variety of tire manufacturers during product launches. Please register or login to enable Dark Mode.Hot Rod Power Tour/ Pump Gas Drags/ Drag Week.Gen 5 Camaro Tuning, Diagnostics, Dyno results. ![]()
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