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Re: ST tire options

To: autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: ST tire options
From: dg50@daimlerchrysler.com
Date: Tue, 21 Sep 1999 10:10:22 -0400
Loren Williams <Loren@kscable.com> wrote:

>> In my opinion, the goals of "competing on your daily street tires"
>> and "winning" are mutually exclusive. Two different kinds of tire for >> two
different purposes.

> If you really believe your last sentence, then you are not an advocate > of a
street tire class at all.

Add the word "National" in front of "street tire class" and you're right.
Regional street tire classes make sense. National ones do not.

> If a person is going to have a second set of wheels with tires
> specifically for autocross purposes, they might as well compete in an
> R-tire class.

Bingo! Not only is the performance better, it's cheaper too.

> Obviously, you are not a proponent of the ST (street tire version)
> class.

The problem here is that "street tire" (your fight) and "riceboy" (my fight) are
being intermixed and confused with each other, when they really are two
speparate and distinct issues.

I am concentrating on the high-end in STU, where R tires are a given. But the
contention that ST as a low-end riceboy class needs to be street tire based in
order to attract and retain low-end riceboys is, in my opinion as a riceboy
poster child, gravely mistaken.

DG




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