I started viewing the sport when many cages were bolt on, the motors barely had the compression to run Methanol and both Motors and Tires lasted many races. The power went up but until the late 70's early 80's it was still mostly grooved drag tires MT's and Double Diamond. Is something like this viable now? Probably been ten years since I talked with Troy link but he ran the hardest tire he could find all the time and claimed to get about 15 races replaced pistons rods and mains twice a season running mostly once but sometimes twice a week.. Of course if there wasn;'t a cushion to lean on, he was getting ate up in the corners.

But who cares? You won't be seeing many New track records with a hard tire. But dang, 20-30k tire bills for a season. What if you could cut it to 5k.

Another problem solved would eliminate the need for the thumper motors. In fact, some nights a 305-360 might be the better option.

Or leave it as is? I imagine half of Paragon regulars do something like that anyway. Is the racing any worse?

Inquiring minds. Just want our sport to survive and possibly grow. Might even sound silly to some. That's ok.