{"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&#8217;t<\/em> there. The review took almost two weeks to write, edit and publish. Lots of pictures, video, lengthy discussions about the various tires&#8217; 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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vorshlag.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/vorshlag-review-of-the-bfgoodrich-rival-tire\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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}]}}