Originally Posted by Honest-Sam:
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.
Saturday's show had plenty of passing. Santos moved up from sixth and the race with Coons through traffic for the win was stellar. Nobody but the two local cars had ever raced at Kalamazoo before and I'm pretty sure nobody tested there. Maybe that had something to do with why the racing was so good?