time trial tires
I'm fishing for opinions on an idea regarding time trialing. The major expense for most of us is tires. Without good racing tires, you won't be competive. I was thinking that in classes D and below, most cars are street cars that need seperate tires and rims to run on top of their class. If there were a requirement that Alfas in those classes had to run street tires (dot 100 or greater wear factor), there would be several advantages. 1) lower cost 2) less stress on our old chassis that were never made to handle the forces of modern racing tires. (have you checked for cracks that form near the top of the front shocks?) 3) more emphases on car control with tires that slid a bit sooner. The advantage would go to the best driver, not the one who has the newest set of shaved and heat cycled Kumhos.
Those with race cars in classes ABC and Alfa Cup would still run what they want, and the rest could save a little money and still compete on an equal basis.
I don't want to rock the boat and I'll still do both time trials and Alfa Cup, but I'm just checking if some of you might be open to this idea before I talk to Doug Bender.
Thanks, Phil.
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