I heard a lot of good things about this tire too. Great in the wet. Can be lackluster at the track after few hot laps. But if you aren't tracking, excellent tire.Firestone Firehawk Indy 500s.
Had them on my Genesis Coupe 3.8 GT, great perfomance tires at a good price!
Track day only tires and wheels are necessary when you experienced enough to extract everything out of the car and tires are the biggest limit. Let's say you want to upgrade to metallic brake compound. You can't run those with lower grip street tires. You will trigger ABS frequently.How many sets of tires do you go through before it's cost justifiable to get a set of wheels for daily driving, a set for snow, and a set for track?
I don't track any of my current cars, but I do run a dedicated set of snow wheels and three season wheels on my daily and I get tons of life out of them. No driving like on tail of the dragon or a track day, but I can see having a set of track only tires if the tread life is so short and the cost so high.