Re: Tire reliabilty, and traction control

[Higginbotham Land Speed Racing <saltrat@pro-blend.com>]

Well now that was rude! Anybody can try whatever they want. They just won't
get a record sanctioned by SCTA-BNI as it stands now. Also it does what? to
fixing the tire problem.
Skip



At 09:08 PM 11/30/01 -0600, you wrote:
>:
>
>> Skip:
>> all that torn-up salt I saw at the "big end" of the long course this 
>August tells me
>> that there are at least several people in very fast machines who don't 
>manage to keep
>> their tires from spinning-- A LOT.  And -- if you will remember the 
>reports we were
>> getting about who-all was having tire trouble-- I think several of those 
>folks have
>> pretty good credentials as LSR drivers.  Couldn't we just allow these 
>folks to TRY
>> traction control (especially since you "have no opinion")-- or do you 
>think it will
>> improve the gene pool if we just let them keep spinning their tires?
>> Russ
>>
>> Skip Higginbotham wrote:
>>
>> > Hi Russ,
>> > No!!!!! Drivers can learn to drive. There is enough machine
>> > feedback.......problem is for a new driver to get enough experience to
>> > recognize it and perform the right corrective action.
>> >
>> > Tire failures at 300+ have not been linked to anything specific that I
have
>> > read or heard. How about someone publishing some real failure analysis
info
>> > instead of trying to fix a symptom in lieu of the problem?
>> > Skip (See? I have no opinion!!!!)

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