It's not just $5,000 for the year. It's roughly $1500-$2500 a pavement race. Not including races that have a practice night before and not including testing.(Which is a whole other subject)

It isn't that they have so many different compounds that you go through a night, it's that you go through so many tires period of the heat cycles.

I would be in favor of first a limit of tires used by stamping them before the first practice before developing all new tires. Someone mentioned they did it in Vegas and it worked out well.

Instead of 2-3 sets a night you are looking at a set with a LR or two added because of stagger.

I'm not saying that this is the ultimate solution, but it is one that I believe is a step in the right direction and could lead the sport down a path that can keep it more than just viable, but thriving as well.

If you can save $700-$1,000 a night on tires, that is a huge impact on the smaller teams ability to get to the next show or repair whatever might be wrong with their cars.