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Originally Posted by Mattmac05
Personally, I am a fan. 1) the medium is hard enough to get about 65-70 good laps out of it as long as it doesn't take rubber or get too abrasive 2) without a mandated tire that isn't terribly soft like a rd12, big teams would be running rd12's and it is difficult to compete when they are using brand new RD12s 3) it's one less setup variable for new teams. Essentially with an open tire rule, big teams would buy softer tires and change them more often, thus having both newer and softer tires. Right now those teams just have newer tires.
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I think that this post is right on. There are several people who have hinted that they think that an open tire rule would help the smaller teams, and that a tire rule punishes the smaller teams to buying a certain tire. We all know that tires are the most important part of the equation of getting the car to go fast. If the well funded teams had an open tire rule, they would completely outspend everyone else. At that point, in order to compete you will have to change the tires as often as the big teams do. It is a losing battle.