In a message dated 4/20/99 10:08:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
alliancemillsoft@worldnet.att.net writes:
<< You'll all, in your
infinite wisdom, tell me that for some magic reason tires cannot be
regulated. They are too complex for that ... black magic, if you will. >>
That is what many teamdotnetters will say. But not all will say that. Of
course it would be possible to regulate tires. First though there would have
to be the will to do it among those who have the time and energy to devote to
such matters as being on SCAC or SEB or being movers-and-shakers in the SCCA.
Those good folks aren't of a mind to change the tire rule to oust racing
rubber from the stock category so it isn't going to happen anytime soon.
Probably never.
As for what the rule should or could be and how it would be enforced...
People who are, I am sure, honest and sincere have said to me that
durometers only measure softness not grip. I have had anecdotal stories
presented in evidence of that assertion. While I concede that softness and
grip might not always be in EXACT correlation I shall continue to believe
that they track close enough together to form a part of a useful detection
and enforcement procedure until I am shown data from extensive, controlled
scientific testing proving the contrary.
Along with durometer testing treadwear ratings would form another
component of the procedure. An exclusion list would flow from that.
This is a subject that some pretend to hate but it always draws enough
verbiage that I can't help believing that many of my fellow cone-destroyers
really enjoy these little keyboard jousts.
Ray Elliott
Norfolk, Va.
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