Are you guys saying "Tired old Jack and Joe" support old tires?
Certainly Joe does.
All with tongue firmly in cheek!
Ask about Fogs.
JVV
----- Original Message -----
From: <N197TR4@cs.com>
To: <vinttr4@geneseo.net>; <henry@henryfrye.com>; <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 11:07 AM
Subject: Old Tires for Uncle Jack and other Senior Citizens at Road America
> 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
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> > 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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