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Originally Posted by Charles Nungester
I've said for a long time, If F1 can run one tire on a 2000pd machine pushing 10gs at time in corners and breaking for 2hrs on one tire. Why can't a sprint or midget have tires to last 3-4 nights?
It might sound stupid to some. I don't think its unfeasible. Even if that one tire was 4-600 dollars. They can run street vettes, stangs and porches around the road course for a hour and drive em home on the same tire.
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Originally Posted by sprntr
F1 cars pit once or twice per race for a 4 tire change.
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Originally Posted by Charles Nungester
Yeah because of a gimmick of having to run both sets of compounds at some point in the race. I've been told they could run the whole race on one set. If my info is wrong, Please correct me. And I have no idea what one of those tires cost.
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I few years ago it was actually a rule that you could only have one set of tires for an entire race. (Not allowed to change tires) But at that time you could still refuel, so they would stop for gas and no tires. Now they wore and slowed down and lost grip and all that stuff; but they didn't blow out on a regular basis either. (When they did it was usually after a driver flat spotted the heck out of them)