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class=733142707-23042015>Kas wrote : "I only tried rotation one time ... and it
was a disaster to the handling".</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=733142707-23042015>Are we all that stupid then? Absolutely not, we
are amateur racers and it should stay that way. In racing are countless
factors influencing the laptimes. As amateurs, we only use part of these
and forget about the rest because of no time, no money, too lazy,...
This is contrary to professional racing and especially races with
all identical cars : winning is (even more) important there and you can't
win if you don't see and take advance of all the opportunities.In amateur
racing, when you are down on power, or you are loosing time by slow overtaking,
you can compensate and gain laptime and still win or have a good
result by taking advance of other opportunities, for instance by not
rotating the tyres. When you are judging it's about time to rotate the tyres :
think about it : on what corner will that left rear tyre perform at it's best in
the next race? At the left rear of course, because the load distribution in the
contact patch tyre/tarmac will be worse on every other corner of the
car. After a few laps it will even out more or less. So laptimes will be
down after rotating, but will recover after a few laps, but not to the full.
When we buy new tyres, the old tyres are never used to the same degree, rotation
or not. We keep the best tyre and throw it away after 10 years. You don't have
to agree, this is amateur racing, you are free to think otherwise with the same
right. No one of us is going to check laptimes to figure it out, and if he does,
we still can contest the circumstances of his tests and have an arguement and
drink a pint or two.</SPAN></FONT></DIV>
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class=733142707-23042015>Marcel</SPAN></FONT></DIV><BR>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>Van:</B> Fot [mailto:fot-bounces@autox.team.net]
<B>Namens </B>Kas Kastner via Fot<BR><B>Verzonden:</B> woensdag 22 april 2015
21:26<BR><B>Aan:</B> FOT<BR><B>Onderwerp:</B> [Fot] tire
rotation<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
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<DIV>I only tried the rotation one time on my team cars TR-6 and GT-6 especially
, Goodyear racing tires with no tread, and it was a disaster to</DIV>
<DIV>the handling. <BR clear=all></DIV>
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<P><STRONG><FONT color=#000099>Never be beaten by
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