Jack had a great experience with those old tires on a track surface that was
yielding less than the fastest lap times for everyone. With a better track
surface he might have had a 2:51.
Of course, this weekend I found some 4-5 year old Hoosiers in the Sasco
Dumpster, that came off of a A-H 3000. Then I ran a personal best at RA.
Starting
29th and finishing 19th. 2:58 (Now I am glad that I terminally flat
spotted my tires,with agressive Hawk Blue braking in the first laps of practice
on Friday)
Pensioners like us, like long lasting tires.....while I am at it...Midwest
Council is now offering a SENIOR CITIZEN DISCOUNT on their entries. How about
that?
Joe Alexander
> had an interesting tire experience last weekend at Road America. I
> was running Hoosiers that had one race weekend on them (plus one
> really old one from the basement replacing the one tire that wore out
> in the first weekend). I knew that the tires were all less sticky
> after going through that number of heat cycles. "So how did those
> hard-as-a-brick tires compare under racing conditions?", one might
> ask. On these harder tires, which didn't show very much wear through
> the second weekend, I turned the best lap time of my life at that
> track -- 2:53.6 (just ahead of a Corvette nyuk nyuk.)
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