I think along with lots of tread, a course like Sunday's also benefitted
cars with lots of horsepower, regardless of street tires or R tires. The #3
PAX'd Komush Capri was on 225 A3S03 Hoosiers ('99 compound) with 6 events
(two drivers) on the tires, with three drivers on Sunday.
I thought the surface had great grip for asphalt, and was much better than
last event when I ran in Katie's car, in the very first run group. It's a
great site and I thank everyone (John Kelly!) involved in obtaining its use
for us. We are very fortunate to have this site.
And I don't think Charlie needs to be driving Don's car anymore! =) But
seriously, that was some nice driving Charlie. I had an eternity to think
about your final time before they let me go out for my final run. Thanks
for putting the pressure on us. It was a good character builder! Y2K
Nationals are gonna be fun!! And we'll probably be gridded next to Don
which will be great.
-Arie
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>From: Smokerbros@aol.com
>To: kkelly@spss.com, lollipop@ricochet.net, donbarbmckenna@earthlink.net
>Cc: ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: GGF & Tires (was: Inner QuandAries)
>Date: Wed, Aug 16, 2000, 7:06 PM
>
> I think the GGF lot likes tires with lots of tread and/or soft tires, so that
> the tread blocks have a better ability to sort of drape themselves over the
> surface irregularities, and consequently have more contact with the ground.
> The Boeing lot at Kent was known for favoring full tread Kumhos, and seems
> like a very similar surface to me.
> It would be interesting to know what the top 10 PAX people were on. I can
> speak for #5 (2nd place in DSP in Don Lew's Supra), we were on Kumho V700s,
> with a lot of tread (not sure exactly how many events on the tires... Don?)
>
> CHD
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