From R&T

When it comes to tires, Hankook may not be a household word...unless that household is home to a family of autocrossers who spend their free time crazily flinging cars around cones on abandoned airfields. Consider the most recent Tire Rack SCCA Solo Nationals in Lincoln, Nebraska, where the most popular street-tire class consisting of Honda S2000s, Mazda Miatas and the odd Toyota MR2 Spyder was running almost entirely on the Hankook Ventus R-S3. Thirteen of the top 17 trophy positions (64 entrants total) in Street Touring Roadster were on Hankooks in this hyper-competitive class, where the difference in time between 1st and 5th (the sum of a competitor's best runs on two separate, roughly 70-second courses) was 0.159 sec! Sneeze during one of these runs, and you'd drop five spots.