Well I slapped a set on my 962. FFB immediately much lighter and appeared to be physically bouncing around on the pit limiter more than before. Took forever(a good 4-5 laps) to get them to temperature on 100F degree track at Algarve. They were not at all happy below 190F but nice and green when pushing 220 at the end of my run. Felt very unstable, floating around on the straights seemed like less grip overall but did not come around in the corners at least. They did appear to be slick.
I had a hard time getting the cornering speeds I had come to expect from Softs, but it actually seemed to be faster at the end of the straights. I suppose at least some of that could be explained from the temperatures which looked like they were a bit over pressure at the same pressures the Hards and Softs had run, mid-26 psi at the front(and more so at the rear -- default has the rears very high at 3psi higher than the front, usually I'd change that in a hurry but it had been surprisingly handling fine and I was testing default setups and tires).
I managed 1 lap about 1.5 seconds slower than the Softs, which doesn't seem much good if they had been qualifying tires. Most laps were well off, but it was pretty difficult to tell how hard I could push as it was uncomfortable and quite different from what I was used to. They were wearing away at least twice as fast as the softs though, which makes them seem more like a qually tire and less like a vintage "period" race tire which was my other guess. They clearly wouldn't make it 20 laps at Algarve.
They also bounced me around like a washboard all the way down the front straight at 180mph, I could barely see where I was going! I didn't really notice that anywhere else except pit lane though.
