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Re: [Fot] Racing Tire Rotation Question

To: Tony Drews <tony@tonydrews.com>, Greg And Alison Blake <ablake2@austin.rr.com>
Subject: Re: [Fot] Racing Tire Rotation Question
From: Bob Kramer via Fot <fot@autox.team.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2015 17:09:49 +0000
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I do and it's probably 6 weekends in an IRS car.
Bob Kramer
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---- Greg And Alison Blake via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote: 
> I do the same as Tony described. Have with the tire mentioned originally and 
> others. 

I got 8 hard race weekends out of a set of Speedsters doing this.  

I will add that this works for me on a TR3 with a live axle. The continued 
inside wear maybe an issue with an IRS car, but I don't have any real 
experience with that.  

Greg

> On Apr 22, 2015, at 9:52 AM, Tony Drews via Fot <fot@autox.team.net> wrote:
> 
> I do exactly as the tire rep mentions - swap the wheels side to side (and 
> front to back), the directional arrow points the wrong way.  This is with 
> Speedsters.  Works fine.  The arrow only makes a difference in a wet race.
> 
> Cheers, Tony
> 
> At 08:12 AM 4/22/2015, John Styduhar via Fot wrote:
>> I'm running Hoosier Speedster 205/60 15. The tires have a direction arrow on 
>> the sidewall. The Hoosier tire factory rep. told me that I could swap the 
>> tires/wheels side-to-side to even out the tire wear and extend tread life. 
>> No need to remount and rebalance tires.Ã?  But that would make the tire roll 
>> in the opposite direction as shown on the sidewall. The rep said the tire 
>> design is symetrical and the directional tread pattern is for water 
>> shedding.Ã?  My internet query also supports this thinking.Ã?  What are 
>> fellow racers doing about racing tire rotation? Ã?
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