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Tires and Nitrogen

To: land-speed@autox.team.net
Subject: Tires and Nitrogen
From: DrMayf@aol.com
Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 18:02:33 EDT
The NASCAR guys use Nitrogen in there tires, accoreding to a response from a 
fan question, "because it is more stable. Air contains water wapor in 
quantities that are different every day. This makes control of pressure 
extremely difficult. So we use nitrogen to eliminate that." This was a 
paraphrasing since I am old and cannot remember much. But the main reason was 
water vapor (i.e. humidity). Just another thought.

mayf

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