Roger Johnson wrote:
> At the risk of being repetitive: either the tire rules work, or
> they don't. If they work for STS as a National class, they
> will work for Stock. (But we have been told, since 1983,
> that they cannot be enforced, hence the "R" tires.)
There are maybe 5 different street tire models that are extremely common
that you would be likely to see competing at Nationals in STS. Likewise,
there are 3 or 4 different R-tire models that are common to Stock & SP
classes. Now, what's to keep a tire manufacturer from making "ringer
tires" for Stock classes as we now know them? How does this differ from
the street tire situation?
I would think that if a manufacturer were inclined to do something like
this, they'd do it with the R-tires because they'd sell a helluva lot more
of them than they would to the few of 20-30 STS drivers who would buy new
tires at Nationals.
STS = 1 class, maybe as many as 3 someday.
Stock & SP = 14 classes, several of which are at least twice as big as STS.
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