The 5.5X15 Hoosier Vintage TDs I brought to VSCDAs Fall Finale at
Mid-Ohio were bought new from Bob Woodman last month at the Glen. They
had 5 short SVRA sessions on them. I knew I was in trouble, the fronts
were already down to their wear indicators on the inside half of the
tread. The rears were worn evenly across, not too bad. I rotated front
to back and loaded up for Mid Ohio.
The set of tires went 4 more sessions plus 7 laps of a 10 lap sprint
race. (Don't ask!)
The left rear is corded. Left and right fronts are scrap. The right rear
might have one session left in it.
Knowing I was going to run out of tires, my good friend John Wiley
brought a set of essentially unused 3 year old TDs for me to borrow.
I ran 28 laps of enduro plus a 12 lap feature race and you could barely
tell I used the tires! I ran a 1:50 in the enduro and a 1:49 in the
feature so those 3 year old tires were hooking up just fine...
I also had a chat with the mechanic Dick Naze credits with putting him
on his first podium (CONGRATS DICK!) who works on REAL race cars. He
claims Hoosier's quality control really stinks, having experienced about
four seconds a lap difference between sets of tires...
So maybe Hoosier didn't KNOWINGLY change their compound, but this years
batch isn't quite right...
Just a thought.
Sent from my PDA - Sorry about brevity and typos
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