Exactly. It's both odd and ironic to watch some drivers run the worst possible
lines through corners and an old time SCCA hotshoe can't make up any ground on
them when he's hitting his apex points, using up the whole track, and is using
all the grip the tires have to offer.
-Bob Adams
BOB KRAMER <rkramer3@austin.rr.com> wrote:
I might say that the main reason we hate the "pukka" tires is that our
competition out there, the guys we want to run with and play with, still
have radials available to them in proper sizes. Look at all the cars that
run 195 or 205 X 60X14 and you'll know what I mean.
Bob Kramer
rkramer3@austin.rr.com
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Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2005 11:17 PM
Subject: Re: [MGVR] Tire
> The apparent condundrum this poses is intriguing -- seems as if everyone
> hates the few tires that are totally pukka for the really picky vintage
> race
> groups, and those groups insist that the tires they're specifying are the
> one ones
> that produce racing "just like it was in ze olt dayz" as B.S. would say.
> Who's to be believed? Are we just making up a sort of virtual vintage
> racing
> by setting rules that suit us, neither really competitive within basic
> limitations a la SCCA, nor really vintage as in the way race driving was
> when the
> cars were new?
> That's a zen question -- it requires no response.
> Cheers
> Gary
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