Makes me sad too, Alky. If tire bills are driving away the owners, then a combo car won't fix that.
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Originally Posted by nowingsjeff:
What about Superduke's answer of narrowing the tires? I'm for that & stiffening the sidewalls too. That should bring some of the side by side back to both dirt & pavement. The only problem with that is the sanctioning body doesn't have the balls to do it because of all the crying they know they'll hear from the racers. Especially the well funded teams that out horsepower everyone else.
I haven't been able to figure out, or have explained, how a narrower tire on pavement would aid in passing. So long as everyone is on the same brand, size and compound of tire, like now, wouldn't it still be 'equal'? When narrow tires did exist on pavement, all of the other technologies of the day(shocks, motors, chassis design, etc.) was probably not up to the level of today's. I wonder if today's pavement cars could run narrower tires at all. Or, at least, run them without tire treatments and traction control. Where would we be then? I don't know.