If Hoosiers are your choice, I imagine the budget required is significant. Unless you have a great contingency program available, and win regularly, your wallet is pretty thin by the end of the season.
IF you substituted Toyos, for example, it is easy to see that an average season would have the tire budget cut in half. For the one guy who wins all the time, the loss of contigency bucks makes the difference smaller....
But...for all the guys who DON'T win, those savings are real.
Spec tires are meant to save money for the entire class.
What about not specing a tire in particualr, nor even a specific manufacturer? I've always liked the idea of mandating certain parameters that would make the tires last longer, thus saving money.
Perhaps disallowing tires under a certain treadwear rating? In other words, run whatever you like as long as it has a treadwear of XXXX or more.
I wouldn't shed a tear if Hoosier was eliminated from the list of choices.
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Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
ITA 57 RX-7
New England Region
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