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RE: DOT Race Tires may become illegal

To: "autox" <autox@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: DOT Race Tires may become illegal
From: "Jarrod Igou" <jigou@raquet.net>
Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 09:11:41 -0500
If I recall the gist of the conversation on Sunday at our autocross, the
local Hoosier distributor (known as Ron VerMulm) mentioned that a
significant portion of the new bill was indeed more testing.

Currently, tires are only required to have one tire per rim size tested; the
new standards would require every single size to be tested to destruction.

Anyone headed to the Solotime event in St. Louis this weekend? Ron will be
there - he can straighten out what I screwed up, which is probably most of
the above. :-)

Jarrod



-----Original Message-----
From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Steven T. Ekstrand
Sent: Thursday, May 23, 2002 5:13 PM
To: Linnhoff, Eric; autox
Subject: Re: DOT Race Tires may become illegal


The impression I get is the legislation will impose greater testing
requirements on makers, not necessarily different specifications.  I don't
know for sure, that is simply the impression I got from the current
proposal.

If it's merely more testing and documentation like crash testing of cars,
then all it does is drive up costs for DOT R tires.  If it changes the
specification then that is a whole different question, and I wouldn't mind a
spec that made all DOT R's more like Kumho Victoracers.

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