Michelin Pilot Sport A/S Plus N-Spec 

Excellent tire for dry traction , wears out too fast

I purchased these tires for spirited back road driving, autocross and a few track days a year. I have owned Nitto NT01's before, using them for the same purposes. I couldn't get NT01s in a fitment for the C6 Z06 I purchased, so I decided to move to the Cup tires. I had heard that you need to be careful with them and make sure they're up to temperature. What I also heard was that they are hard to get up to temperature. That really made me hesitate. I like to go out early in the mornings for a drive when it can still be in the low 50's. Would there be an issue with temperature for me?

I took the leap and purchased the tires. What I found was yes, you do need to be aware of temperature for this tire, but they do come up to temp pretty quickly. I keep an eye on my tire pressure in the drive info system and when the pressure has gone up by 2 psi, I'm feeling the tire start to stick like it should. That normally happens within about 10 min of driving with a few hard stops...even on a cool morning.

Once up to temp, these tire are magical! While the tire is heavy because of the the ZP sidewalls, it looks like Michelin has used that to the drivers advantage. The stiffness of the sidewall makes turn in immediate and precise. The traction seems almost limitless. The tires are almost on par with the A7's I run for autocross...they don't come up to temp fast enough for autocross, but they are close to the A7 after about 4 runs of heat into them.

On the track and back roads, once up to temp, you feel like you can place the car pretty much anywhere and once set, the traction just goes on for days. You can tell when the tire starts to stick, so you don't have to guess. They are very communicative and I feel like they are telling me what is going on at the road level.

Down side is noise and stiffer ride than with a non-ZP tire.

Bottom line it is a great tire for spirited driving. Just let it come up to temperature and then you're good to go.

1. Very good dry traction.
2. Very fast steering response due to tiff side wall. Zero Pressure construction.
3. Linear traction fall off characteristic at the limit.
4. Endures heat very well and grip fall off is linear. Based on 20minutes track session with 1670kg weight car.
5. Very good steering feed back.
6. As you can imagine, you do not purchase this type of tire for mileage.

These tires are made for the track, but can be driven daily on the open road. They stick like glue when hot on dry pavement. Very little traction on wet pavement. Quite pleased with these tires on cornering and rapid acceleration. Best tires for aggressive driving.

OEM tires for ZTK package. Was pleasantly surprised with comfort and quietness of these tires even compared to Pilot Sport Zero Pressure. As a result when I replaced the original tires these were the choice. I do some track driving. They have good wet weather traction unless under heavy throttle but hydroplane when rain is heavy on poorly drained roads. They’re worth the trade-off!

This tire is amazing for summer driving or track driving. They are a bit noise on the road and not very friendly in the rain. The tread wear is excellent!!! The grip is insanely good for a street tire.

Good dry traction and street legal tire however wears extremely quickly under aggressive hard track use with high horsepower car.

tire is not the factory tire for this vehicle. But the grip and handling during auto cross, drag racing and rally running has been good. Its the tread wear that it most concerning about this tire, as opposed to the factory tire for this vehicle. We take some road trips in the vehicle but enjoy auto cross a couple times per season and running the U.S. Mile in Texas.

Pick your poison. Sticky track tires or concern for tread wear. The price for the factory tire and the sup series tires are about dead even

They're nice. They're aggressive but they don't last long