I don't clean my tires, but I do take the longest way possible through the grounds to staging. I run all season Continental DWS, nothing exciting there either. I have a couple 116 mph time slips from Sunday, but crappy 60' from experimenting with tire pressures and tune changes. Just got to be too many people to make it worth my while beating the dead horse... I will try to sneak out on a week night and do another impromtu track day. lol