[LEADERS EDGE]

Make the tires smaller and harder and teams will figure out how to hook them up. Not saying I am against it, just saying that it's not that simple.

Put in a higher weight rule and teams may get away from Ti. Bolts, but they will spend more on the rotating parts; which are the expensive ones. Lighter bodies help lower the Roll Center. Take the weight off here or there and put it back in the floor pan or the frame rails.

I hear alot of people say that we need to get the cars heavier, but heavier race cars are more dangerous than lighter ones. And like I said, there will be more emphasis on getting the rotating parts lighter.

As long as the cockpit is built with intergrity, the lighter cars are safer. Besides, I feel that with the fuel standards that are being introduced, there will be a large amount of lighter materials at good prices available within the next 3-5 years. Be it new plastics, Carbon fiber or other materials.

This is a hard question to answer and in many ways people are asking to try and keep engine platforms alive that are 10-15 years old; still viable today. That is a tough task.

I find it funny that when this subject comes up someone always says; we just can't keep doing this because that is how we have always done it, but then the battle cry is to get rid of the newer light weight componets so we can get back to the good ol days of fiberglass and steel.