Kent,
Yes and No. We have a very large "street tire" class in Chicago and
we run it as one big indexed class (the competitors like it that way).
We also have some of those grizzled veterans running there but only a
few.
Numbers from 2001
Total Drivers/Street Tire/Street Touring/Street Mod (for you)
140/36/17/18
184/64/17/14
131/40/15/7
113/37/11/8
137/37/12/14
99/31/3/7
159/56/12/16
157/62/14/10
gs96 wrote:
>
> Mark, maybe it's different where you live but I'm in
> Larry's region and most of the competitors run the
> Stock -street tire classes. Even some of the grizzled
> veterans switch back to street tires for these events -
> not me, I'm addicted to R-rubber. R tires *might* be
> cheaper than Street tires for National competition but
> they certainly aren't for local competitors who are
> running on what they drive every day. Most
> importantly, the gap between the newbie on Goodyears
> and the hotshoe on Falkens is much closer than if the
> hotshoe is running on Hoosier "race" tires - and the
> closer the racing is the more fun it is for the
> newbies.
--
Regards,
Mark J. Hirt
Mark.Hirt@home.com
http://members.home.net/mark.hirt/
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