Polo GTI v Golf GTI on a Track

[T Go]

Oh sweet Jesus..i am dead keen to track my car..can you please send the details on to me aswell?

...been lucky to date and not been flashed or pulled over in my car - that can't last forever - i needs me a track day!

Aite cool. I will keep u in the loop as well, no probs.

[RhysQ]

a little off topic (actually quite a bit - but not worth starting a new thread), but how do you guys find the wear on the tyres after a track day??

[DaveMack]

a little off topic (actually quite a bit - but not worth starting a new thread), but how do you guys find the wear on the tyres after a track day??

I don't look.

Dave

[Eddy]

a little off topic (actually quite a bit - but not worth starting a new thread), but how do you guys find the wear on the tyres after a track day??

Hoyhoy.
Terrible, waiting on Whiteline to get rear shims in.

[seangti]

Can't comment on the VW's, ask me in a couple of months

Experience from previous car:
The tread wear looks worse than what it is. You get chunks of rubber build up.

I'd done 7-8 trackdays (over 100 hotlaps on sprint circuit) at QR and a couple of skid pans on a set of Yoko C-drives and still got 25,000km out of em. Set the right pressure, don't over drive the car and regular rotations. Tyres wear really quickly by over driving, they did go hot and mushy after 2-3 hot laps, do a lap at 85% than a final hot one to finish off.

[mikepologti]

So basically you want to know is a Golf handles better than a Polo? Of course.

It may just be me but i've driven a Golf GTI and Polo GTI and to be honest the Polo's suspension is far from 'rolling all over the place' in comparison. It's not that much softer than the Golf's. You would expect the Golf's suspension/chassis to be superior (which it is) but in that saying that, it's still not exceptional.

If you upgraded suspension in the Polo and tracked it against a stock Golf, wouldn't that just make any comparison useless

im by no means a expert but i would have thaught the same thing. given better suspension on the polo and i thaught it would have been alot closer.