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Subject: one of my favorite topics
From: RacerRay52@aol.com
Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 10:53:43 EDT
In a message dated 4/20/99 10:08:50 AM Eastern Daylight Time, 
alliancemillsoft@worldnet.att.net writes:

<< You'll all, in your
 infinite wisdom, tell me that for some magic reason tires cannot be
 regulated. They are too complex for that ... black magic, if you will. >>

     That is what many teamdotnetters will say. But not all will say that. Of 
course it would be possible to regulate tires. First though there would have 
to be the will to do it among those who have the time and energy to devote to 
such matters as being on SCAC or SEB or being movers-and-shakers in the SCCA.
     Those good folks aren't of a mind to change the tire rule to oust racing 
rubber from the stock category so it isn't going to happen anytime soon. 
Probably never.
     As for what the rule should or could be and how it would be enforced...
     People who are, I am sure, honest and sincere have said to me that 
durometers only measure softness not grip. I have had anecdotal stories 
presented in evidence of that assertion. While I concede that softness and 
grip might not always be in EXACT correlation I shall continue to believe 
that they track close enough together to form a part of a useful detection 
and enforcement procedure until I am shown data from extensive, controlled 
scientific testing proving the contrary.
     Along with durometer testing treadwear ratings would form another 
component of the procedure. An exclusion list would flow from that.
     This is a subject that some pretend to hate but it always draws enough 
verbiage that I can't help believing that many of my fellow cone-destroyers 
really enjoy these little keyboard jousts. 

Ray Elliott
Norfolk, Va.

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