Originally Posted by JDavis#11:
One tire per night is not an option. We are an extremely low budget team, but will use two and sometimes 3 right rear wheels with different offsets to tune the car to track conditions. We also take a tire that has some laps left in it and run hot laps / qualifying, and the heat race. Then mount up a new tire for the feature. The one tire rule would defiantly hurt lower budget teams who can't mount up a new tire every race. We try to get all of the good out of our tires. As someone else stated on here, competition cures a lot of problems. Hoosier has the monopoly in Indiana. They can tell us what ever they want, and can charge what they want, and if you are going to race a sprint car in Indiana right now, you are going to run Hoosier tires. That is the rule. IT sucks, but that's how it is now. Hopefully it will change, but I'm not gonna hold my breath.
I don't think a lot of people realize 1 tire a night hurts and almost kills the lower budget teams. A lot of them teams already are using tires that bigger teams say are unusable.
Although i'm just a D2/mini sprint, I have no fight in the sprint car world of rules. The 1 tire a night rule would kill us though. I have specific tires for the heats and specific tires for the A. Once it's wore out it becomes a hot lap/time trial tire. It keeps them more useful and alive longer that way. I do know some sprint car people that do that also.
Compound rules also hurt us, but I kind of know why them rules are a thing. Even though I have about 20-25 wrong compound tires that are not usuable. Some are D10's, some of them are almost new and would probably outlast most of my D15's/Sp2's that i have. That's not including all the American racers I have (which I think is a much better tire.) I've been checking place to get rid of them, due to their taking space and the cheapest I found is 7 dollars a tire. So around 200 to get rid of tires that I can't use, even though there's quite a few that's almost new.