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Originally Posted by Go Fast
Probably not. The car wasn't the issue, it was the tires. I spent more on tires than the roller cost.
I can't understand why an average passenger car tire costs around $90 and a race tire cost me $250. There are a
lot more components involved in making a street tire. Maybe it has something to do with the number of choices there are for tires and the fact there is actually some competition in the market.
I know of three pretty good pavement cars that are just sitting. Those guys don't have the money to go and test like the big teams so they just stay parked.
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I don't think that there's much difference in the cost of producing a street tire versus a race tire. But the distribution channels allow a manufacturer to make more money with the volume(#) of tires produced and sold. And street tires "support" race tires by their numbers.
And you can be sure that all of the race tire companies know that racers will pay a lot for tires; the producers build tires that wear out quickly. It's the only way that the tire companies can get any kind of volume, and minimize their losses in the race tire business. Keep this in mind - if Goodyear is the contracted supplier to Ford or GM for the tires on just one pickup truck series(F-150 or Silverado), they'll sell about 8 or 9 million tires to the automaker. Even with a profit of just $1.00 per tire, that's an $8 million profit to the tire corporation.
Hoosier would have to sell a bunch of tires to achieve those profit numbers - or charge as much as they do..........