Buying tires at the track might seem like a good idea, until you realize half the field is running on used tires until the feature. You weed out any low budget team making them buy them at the track
Originally Posted by 3Cfan:
Not a technical guy by any means, but can throw out an occasional what if. What if a team used doped tires for qualifying and heat races to improve their starting position for the feature, and then used a legal tire during feature. They would never be caught.
There have been times in recent years that USAC has teched tires at the scales after qualifying. The most notable night this happened was the night Brackett's tire failed after he set quick time.
Originally Posted by flagboy55:
Just a thought. Teams leaving to run wings is irrelevant to this particular situation. KT and Big Daddy were always at the front of USAC races anyway, before this conflict. I might be off base, but it seems to me they’re going after the illusion of more money with wings, in spite of the additional expense, or a new challenge
Not if teams and people in general are tiring of Usac and it’s direction. Part of this discussion has included why are so many people anti Usac. Might just be a coincidence they left to run wings this year it might not.
Originally Posted by kn16:
Its real simply buy the right rear and left rear tires at the track,
End of story
Stops everything
The biggest thing that would stop would be the entire show. RR =$285 LR=$317…at a minimum you’d need 1 rr & 2lr… how many teams can afford $900+ per night for tires?
So teams and drivers leave USAC to run for more money and now they leave to run for less money. I think it’s time for a change in leadership starting at the top.
