Cuz, that's what I do (or in this case, did a few months ago)! I'm missing a couple chunks out of the shoulder of my tire after a day at Streets of Willow race track. It's a bit of a rough surface...
Here's a link to some in-car vid:
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=447692002494302463&hl=en
Observations: cold tires do not stick well. On a front heavy car (basically any car that is not rear wheel drive) the front tires warm up quite a bit faster than the rears. What does this mean? The cold rear tires do not grip as well and it makes it easy to spin! I found that out first session in the morning with an air temp of 40F or so. I didn't spin, but I got pretty good and sideways!
There was a guy in a Honda S2000 that severely damaged and maybe totaled his car. The really sad part is that it happened in the very first 10 minutes of the morning. So, uh, yeah... don't drive crazy when it's cold out.
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