Cheers Guys.
John hit the nail on the head above. I only intend to use the crap budget tyres on an airfield to help get used to the car. Nothing to hit except a cone. Which ended up being the case!
The day was mainly intended to get used to the car and me to give the car a good shake down and test for reliablility.
Steve kindly drove it back 30 miles on the road (as I wanted to drop the trailer off on the way). On the road, the tyres are quite frankly dangerous just using moderate throttle. And in the wet (on the airfield), car could not stay in a straight line using moderate throttle.
And I agree. I always usually use premium tyres on the road on the daily drivers etc.
I have the Toyo's T1S on the "road tyres" at present as I don't intend to be using the car in really bad weather (though Mallory park could change that!)
For the track, I was looking at these intermediates.
http://www.toyo.co.uk/productdetail....&product_id=67
Those the goodyear Eagle F1's are recommended on a road car, not sure about hard compond on a 5exi.
http://eu.goodyear.com/uk_en/tires/r...F1AS/index.jsp
Suspension wise I intent to get it all set up. The Elise settings seems to be a good starting point from what I have read a couple of times.
So I intend to have a word with these guys.
http://www.sinclairemotorsport.com/
Though I would love to take the car to get set up by TD, they are a little far away at present just for a setup etc. Long term maybe....