My concern would be that our government, in the interest of "safety",
would establish regulatory requirements that would make it impossible
for any tire to attain the dry clean pavement performance that we can
get with current "R" tires or even high performance street tires like
the Pirelli P0.
The Ford / Firestone case showed that many people don't maintain their
tires properly and when they blow up they expect to sue somebody over it
even if it was caused by their own negligence. In such a litigious
environment the manufacturers really wouldn't have any choice but to
"overbuild" the tires. So maybe they require multiple steel belts,
runflat construction, deep tread or other things that may increase
safety but also increase weight and reduce autocross performance.
That's a good thing because it's great to have "idiot proof" tires for
people who need them. But if the new regulations aren't written
intelligently, then "idiot proof" tires might become our only choice.
That would be a bad thing.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jesus Villarreal
> Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 13:29
> To: james creasy
> Cc: jeff@Winchell.Com; ba-autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: DOT Race Tires may become illegal
>
>
> james creasy wrote:
> >
> > the threat to stop making r-tires doesnt make sense to me- scca and
> > other orgs can just change what tires are allowed in
> certain classes.
> > thats just changing some words on some paper somewhere.
> >
> > -james c
>
> Do you realize how difficult it is to get SCCA to "just
> change some words somewhere". It might take years for that to
> happen, and then you have to phrase the wording so carefully
> to keep people from using slicks in the stock classes. It
> just might be worth your time to respond to this "THREAT".
>
> Jesus
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