Originally Posted by
Lizardracing
I follow some people on the social media and Youtube that host and instruct several of these chassis schools. I'm not sure why I find interesting, novelty maybe, but anyway, One of the lastest ones advertised a "new must have tech" device called a tire rater. Basically a modified spring smasher for wheel and tires. I assume the benefit is going to advertised as consistency when you measure and record 100's of tires and group matched sets of stickers and/or scrubs.
Isn't racing always about selling something to somebody to fund your own? The industry is ripe for snake oil salesman selling promises of trades of cash for success. Once in a while, something will take off and go viral so that everybody has to have one or you might as well go home.
Now, I don't get caught up in the hype at all, however I was curious to the thoughts of the others in more elite classes of racing then me. Seems kinda gimmicky to me but hell, I'll never be at the level these guys are either. I'm still on a 9" and scales LMAO.