Mark Gregory
New member
The idea is to cut cost. The study would be to find out what cars realy need new tires every race and what cars can run for longer on old rubber. front wheel drive cars may use more fronts than rears if they have the same alocation as a rear wheel drive car thay may have an advantage by only having to replace the fronts more often. Could your car go all season - ten races on three sets of tires ? - when i ran the ITA Golf in 2000 we only purchased new front and put worn fronts on the rear. Thing about this average cost of tires $1000 mounted and balanced. three sets $3000 ten races. cost for tires per race $300. In 2005 I ran 14 NARRC races with three sets of tires and the third set was for the runoff at Lime rock. I did a 1.017 at Lime rock on tires that had done 4 race weekends. I think I was on the front row next to Nick with a set of 3 race tires in june of that year. We have learned from our endurance racing that tires can go much longer than you think without a great loss of performance at the 24 hour race we ran a set of tires ( I will keep the name of the tire for now) for 8 hours with little or no performance loss . I agree that all cars are different that is why it would take a little work to figure it out but the goal is to reduce racing cost and we all know that tires are on of our biggest expences.
