Originally Posted by team3521:
And that is THE reason why pavement racing is going to die. Just like the Midgets have suffered, a slow and painful to watch death. Nail on the head Don.
I put 98% of the blame on the purple tire company.
Someone should have seen this coming years ago and there's the other 2% of the blame.
If the tire manuf. don't want to alter their compounds to last longer (which they could do) and lower the costs, then go elsewhere for the tires of the sanctioning body. ie: American Racer, Goodyear, etc
There are other companies that could make our tires for us with a lot less greed IMO. Yes, they have the right to make as much profit as possible from us, This is the USA (last I checked) but not at the expense of killing series'. We have the right as a customer to look elsewhere for the products that we are consuming. They do not have a monopoly on this market!
Why not have a tire sponsor that would actually be advertising to the fans and supplying tires to competitors at a very very reasonable rate or actually supply competitor tires for the advertising.
The benefit to the tire company is direct access to the fans.