Can you say "911 that is driven to events with tires," I can. A pair of
Hoosier R45's on the roof makes the car look like mickey mouse according
to my kids.
We have a local competitor that used to carry race tires in her C5
'vette. One sees a LOT of miata's with trailers. Local FS icon Don Knopp
ALWAYS carries his race tires in his Camaro.
e
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Kevin Stevens
Sent: Tuesday, May 28, 2002 9:08 PM
To: Mark J. Andy
Cc: Evolution; autox mailing list
Subject: Re: DOT Race Tires may become illegal
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Mark J. Andy wrote:
> Howdy,
>
> On Tue, 28 May 2002, Kevin Stevens wrote:
> > > Other than availability in currently popular street sizes, how
> > > would allowing slicks be VERY bad?
> >
> > If I can't legally drive to the event on my racing tires, I'm not
> > coming. Ever.
>
> Um. Ok.
>
> How do the other 99% of stock class competitors who _already_ don't
> come to the event on their R tires feel?
>
> Mark
Ok, more detail:
I drive Corvettes, Camaros, and Miatas. There's probably a Viper or
Elise in my future.
The only one of those you can realistically fit four tires and changing
equipment in is the Camaro, and even that is a royal PITA. Eliminating
DOT legal tires from Stock/SP classes means, realistically, that a
trailer is required for participation (for many cars), and a commitment
to changing wheels twice under whatever weather and time conditions
pertain at the event site (for ALL cars).
That is a significant participation hurdle above and beyond what exists
today. It isn't a trivial change, as was presented, and I just want to
bring that to the front. It was immediately obvious to me that it's
more of a burden than I would be interested in assuming: I don't have
facilities to park a trailer, I'm not interested in dragging a trailer
around, and it isn't even feasible at a lot of local events to change
tires at the event (you have to be off/on the lot shortly before/after
the event opens/closes).
I'm willing to drive to/from events on Hoosiers and Kumhos on the street
because in my experience they are fully safe and effective except in
heavy standing water, in which case I park the car. Zillions of cars
ran around without steel-belted radials for years and thought nothing of
it. I'm willing to get a ticket from a LEO for having bald tires if it
comes down to that.
I'm *NOT* willing to get caught with tires with no DOT stamp on public
roads. I don't even know the consequences and I already know I don't
want to go there.
So. Just be aware of the outcome of some of these light-hearted
proposals, is all I'm saying.
KeS
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