{"id":583,"date":"2013-02-08T16:47:04","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T00:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/?p=583"},"modified":"2013-02-08T16:47:04","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T00:47:04","slug":"vorshlag-review-of-the-bfgoodrich-rival-tire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/vorshlag-review-of-the-bfgoodrich-rival-tire","title":{"rendered":"Vorshlag Review of the BFGoodrich Rival Tire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vorshlag owner Terry Fair was lucky enough to snag an invite to the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=57544#post57544\">BFGoodrich Rival<\/a><\/strong> Tire launch and test event, Jan 22-23, 2013, held at the NOLA Motorsports park in New Orleans, LA. Read the review, linked <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=57544#post57544\">here<\/a><\/strong>, to see what our thoughts are on this tire from first-hand driving on 4 different cars and multiple driving formats: skidpad, two autocross courses, and on a 2.75 mile road course.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vorshlag.smugmug.com\/Racing-Events\/BFG-NOLA-012312\/i-xTw5g9D\/0\/M\/bfg-tire-lineup-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>We were able to drive on the three BFG models shown above, with the Rival falling in the middle of the BFG Sport-COMP 2 and R1-S. The Rivals were then matched head-to-head with the Hankook R-S3, Toyo R1R and Falken RT-516K, with some drivers testing on the Dunlop Direzza ZII. Cars driven included MX5 Cup cars, Subaru STIs, BMW E46 M3s and Ford Mustang FR500S race cars.<br \/>\n<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vorshlag.smugmug.com\/Racing-Events\/BFG-NOLA-012312\/i-tHbfZSQ\/0\/M\/BFGoodrichRival071-M.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<br \/>\nIn this lengthy review Terry talks about each tire driven and mentions the obvious tires that <em>weren’t<\/em> there. The review took almost two weeks to write, edit and publish. Lots of pictures, video, lengthy discussions about the various tires’ driving characteristics, potential BFG tire contingencies, and talk about some new tires that are not even out yet. You can start reading our review <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/forums\/showthread.php?p=57544#post57544\">here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vorshlag owner Terry Fair was lucky enough to snag an invite to the BFGoodrich Rival Tire launch and test event, Jan 22-23, 2013, held at the NOLA Motorsports park in New Orleans, LA. Read the review, linked here, to see … <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/vorshlag-review-of-the-bfgoodrich-rival-tire\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">→<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-product"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}