Fresh Yokohama Neova treads were fitted to the Black MPS6 the week prior to OZMazda's day at Wakefield.

"The first thing that comes to mind when I think of the Neova AD08 tyre is that it produces confidence, there are corners floating around my house that would make my Mazda crank side ways under a bit of power, that wont happen now even when the tyres aren’t up to temperature. Noise is not really an issue, low speed and highway I tend to hear it a bit, but the car is noisy anyway being a turbo 4WD with exhaust, intake and ECU.

On the track the Neova was taking a lap and a half to come up to pressure and temp, the grip and behaviour feels like an Advan AO48R race tyre lap after lap, if anything the car was let down by the braking after 6 hard laps, apparently a must is braided lines for the Mazda MPS 6, in short I really didn’t get the tyres to the limit and reeled of consistent times all day Impressive as the MPS tends to generate a lot of understeer and eat the front tyres, I highly recommend these as a duel purpose road track tyre."