RE: SM2 at Topeka

["Jeff Winchell" <Jeff@winchell.com>]

>> I don't know. Maybe I'll test that theory by running my ESP car with
>> 17x11 wheels running DOT tires in CP. I'm not that great a driver but
>> if I pick it up a 1/2 second, I could wind up trophying in CP...
>> never mind the 4 co-drivers I've had this year who would all easily trophy
>> in CP in my ESP car.
>  
>>> Not to mention that in the situation you describe the car would be
>>>legal.
> 
>> Nope. Not with 17" rims... which slow the car down by raising the
>> center of gravity.

>What does your car weigh? 

3130

>What motor?

32V aluminum DOHC Cobra motor with aftermarket fuel injection (all the things 
that CP
hates<s>).

>> The problem isn't that the rule that makes no sense is followed, it's
>> that CP people ACTIVELY campaigned to keep this rule that makes no
>> sense as well as the many other anti-technology rules that CP
>> embraces. No wonder Fordahl's car pummelled Janish's in '99.

>The rule makes plenty of sense.  Go price some 17" slicks

The rule proposal said SP cars running on ***DOT*** tires could run wider than 
P legal
wheel widths. I also said DOT tires countless times in messages on the CP 
thread back then
as well on this list. Not that anyone listens.

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but the one most responsive to change."  -- Charles Darwin

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