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EVO VIII sets sport compact cornering mark on g-Force™ T/A®KD tiresSeptember 30, 2004 Vishnu Tuning in Pleasanton, California runs a wickedly fast Mitsubishi EVO VIII in performance contests. They recently won the small sedan class in the 2004 Tire Rack® Cannonball One Lap of America event, riding on BFGoodrich® g-Force™ T/A®KD tires. They also won the skidpad competition for that class, effectively claiming top sport compact honors. More remarkably, the Vishnu EVO VIII exceeded 1g in doing so, the only true four-door passenger car to break that magic barrier. (The only cars to beat the Vishnu car on the skidpad were Corvettes and Porsches.) Shiv Pathak, proprietor of Vishnu Tuning, chose BFGoodrich® tires for the event because his driver, Paul Gerrard, recommended them. Why did Gerrard recommend them? Because he won the 2003 Tire Rack One Lap of America skidpad event outright in a Ruf 911 on BFGoodrich g-Force T/AKD tires. "Paul told me the BFGoodrich tires were extremely durable, besides providing superb traction,'' Pathak says. "He also praised the stiffness of the BFGoodrich sidewall. That's a quality we very much needed for this event.'' In addition to its superb traction, Pathak said, the BFGoodrich tire wears evenly, without chunking and breaking up. Pathak says after the multi-day ordeal of the Tire Rack One Lap of America, he pulled the tires from the EVO VIII and put them on his own street car. "They drive just fine,'' Pathak says. "The tread depth is reduced, but the block design is intact. They don't look worn.'' BFGoodrich g-Force tires also are the world's fastest street radials. They hold the current world record for street radials in drag racing, set by Dwayne "Big Daddy" Gutridge on a set of g-Force T/A® Drag Radials -- 8.05 seconds at 181 MPH on 11/23/03. BFGoodrich g-Force tires also set the highest cornering mark The Tire Rack has ever recorded.* Vishnu Tuning is at 3687 Old Santa Rita Road #21, Pleasanton, CA 94588. Phone (925) 924-9800 or visit them online at www.vishnutuning.com. Email address: sales@vishnutuning.com. *BFGoodrich® g-Force™ T/A®KD tires have posted the best cornering mark (1.08g) that The Tire Rack has ever recorded, as of 06/10/04. 
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