Wait a second, I thought cheap tires and entry fees meant we were going to have fields of 30 cars again?CSatterley wrote:Do you know that a Waterford Hills weekend is $205 (SCCA member price, $150 for members) for one qualifying and 3 races, need to have a muffler, but there was only 3 vees at the last event all running on old used tires. I'm a big supporter of spec tires
Seriously guys, why not propose it at a regional level and use that as the test bed to determine a tire. As you said, SM and SRF both picked a lousy tire, and they had thousands of dollars of testing and research that went into it. How are we going to accomplish that without starting this on a regional level.
I personally still do not want a spec tire for national racing, but if the majority want it (which it doesn't seem is clear one way or the other, just two vocal minorities arguing on a forum at this point) then let's do it right and get a lot of data to start. Maybe we can get the advisory committee to work with a few regions with larger participation to get a spec tire rule implemented in those regions. I am sure San Francisco region would be happy to share the information they have on the American Racer.
It would also be nice to have everyone who is involved in the debate make it known their status as a vee driver. (Current Regional, Current National, Former Reg/Nat, Perspective Vee driver, etc.) There seem to be some posts from people on here that don't even race FV anymore just stirring the pot.