First, on the truck tires: Those may not necessarily be recaps that you see
on the side of the road. A vehicle weighing 40 tons (and sometimes more)
puts a tremendous amount of stress on tires. When they lose air pressure,
the heat buildup destroys the bonds between the tread and the rest of the
casing. The tread then seperates from the rest of the tire. This happens
on both new and recapped tires.
Recapping has come along way. The quality on many caps is close to that of
a new tire.
As to why we don't use them in Solo 2, I can only guess that:
1: Quality WAS an issue when the rule was put in place.
and/or
2: Someone put a nice sticky slick compound onto a DOT casing and ran in
stock catagory. (Imagine taking the Hoosier R25A slick compound and
sticking it on their DOT casings.)
Maybe someone who was around when the rule was put in place can shed some
light.
Paul Zahornasky
Used to be in the tire industry, still in the heavy duty truck industry.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
> Behalf Of Mark Hirt
> Sent: Sunday, January 12, 2003 8:54 PM
> To: KWall73108@aol.com
> Cc: autox@autox.team.net
> Subject: Re: Recaps
>
>
> On Sun, 12 Jan 2003 20:36:47 EST, KWall73108@aol.com wrote:
>
> >1. Why doesn't SCCA allow recaps in Solo 2?
>
> Ever seen those big strips of tire on the side of the Interstate?
> Those are recaps off of semi's
>
>
> Mark Hirt
>
> Mark.Hirt@attbi.com
> http://home.attbi.com/~nxracer/
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