I haven't yet seen anyone describe the way the Chicago Regon SCCA
and the Tri-State SportsCar Council handles street tires. If this is
redundant info, then just ignore me, i'm working on 4 projects at once right
now.
Our street tire class allows any tires that are 140 tread wear or
more. Cars are indexed within the class according to the RTP index of the
car if it was running in its respective non-street tire class. I ran this
class last year and it creates a class that has competition that is pretty
fair. At the start of the year last year and this year we started with over
50 street tire cars. Towards the end of the season the number drops to 30 or
less, at one event as few as 13 last year. But most of the time last year
the street tire field had mostly the same people all season and most where
people who also where in the Chicago Region Solo II class at the start of
the year. This year, almost all have moved on to R tires, except for a few
who didn't feel they could afford it.
John Moore
1993 Toyota MR2 NA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: richard nichols [SMTP:rnichol1@san.rr.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 12:43 PM
> To: DUELRACER@aol.com; Autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Street Tire classes
>
> I really appreciate the constructive comments on street tire classes, as
> its
> a pet project for me and one that San Diego Region has expressed an
> interest
> in exploring more fully. It's clear that it can be both popular and draw
> new players.
>
> Richard Nichols
> rnichol1@san.rr.com
> 86 Mustang SVO TII 1C: ESP/FSP/?
>
> 72 Pinto Sedan 2.0 3J - Original Owner, Restored
> On display at the San Diego Automotive Museum,
> June 99 through January 00
> -----Original Message-----
> From: DUELRACER@aol.com <DUELRACER@aol.com>
> To: Autox@autox.team.net <Autox@autox.team.net>
> Date: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 10:31 AM
> Subject: Street Tire classes
>
>
> >Here in the Kansas City area, we have had the Street Tire Class for about
> 5
> >years now. It was a way for the Crown Autocross Club and the KCRSCCA to
> get
> >new people to our events and sign up, without being scared to run with
> all
> >the regulars that had Yoko's, BFG's, and Hoosier's. It has worked out
> very
> >well for us, so good in fact that Crown has gone to a more structured
> class
> >system. Last year out of our 8 events we had 180 in the street tire
> class.
> >But out of all of those, only 30 had been in three or more events and
> only
> 9
> >had been in 5 or more to qualify for a trophy. It was suggested to us
> that
> >with this many in a field that we could get more to keep coming back if
> we
> >broke the Street Tire class down to smaller fields. So, by following the
> >Arizona region's lead, we now have three classes.
> >
> >Novice Street Tire, to be eligible for this class you must have been in
> four
> >or less events in the past two years. Once you have entered in this
> class
> >you can stay there for the entire season, but no trophies are awarded,
> you
> >can move to the open Street Tire classes and carry your points with you.
> >
> >Street Tire 1, for the horsepower classes, and Street Tire 2 for the
> handling
> >classes. We had our first event out at a pretty large site this past
> Sunday
> >and had 85 entries. Out of those entries we had a total number of 31 in
> the
> >Street Tire classes. 13 of those in Novice, 10 in ST1, and 8 in ST2.
> >
> >Our problem was getting the new guys to come and race, get hooked and
> then
> >come back. We seem to have fixed that with this new system and a lot
> have
> >said they will be back. We give 5 runs to all first time Autocrossers
> and
> a
> >50% discount to those that have never raced with Crown before. So,
> instead
> >of paying $20, they pay $10. Also to help get things started in the
> first
> >heat we offer 5 runs to all that have signed up for heat 1. After the
> end
> of
> >our season I will let you know the statistics of the Street Tire classes
> and
> >how many decided to come back.
> >
> >Paul "to the floor" Poore Secretary Crown Autocross Club
> >visit our website at Http://members.aol.com/crownac/
> >
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