They're all cheaters.
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They're all cheaters.
welcome to the circus , it is enjoyable most of the time though....
Well said HatTrick you are spot on. I used to work for one the biggest tire dope suppliers in the Midwest and people would be amazed at who all buys it it's usually the ones you least expect. To all the people that say it hurts the little guy racing that's not true there's more people running modifieds and the track packer classes using it than anyone else because local tracks don't control it and aren't going to spend the money for lab testing. I don't think it really matters in the end because if you went to the track and everyone went straight to the tire trailer, bought 4 tires, grooved and siped them, put them on and raced and no one had time to prep a tire the same guys would be running up front that are right now. People also need to realize that hoosier tire is probably the biggest crook in dirt racing. They are the biggest opposition in everyone having better tire rules where a guy can go race more places on the same compounds. They want these series having as many compounds to choose from as they can. They don't want hard tire racing look at how much sales they loose. Maybe if they made tires that were a little more consistent this wouldn't be such an issue, and make tires that don't have such a sealing over problem under cautions because that's is the biggest thing that tire dope cures. I've said for the last 20 years this sport needs to be like bass fishing make them take a polygraph test after the race.
Its called tire soaking for a reason just have them buy the tires at the track the day of the event and problem solved.
how would that work when you don't know how many teams will be there and what race would that pertain you can't do that at every track that just can not work
There should be no testing of tires of any sort. Open rules including tires. Much easier process, and saves money!!!!!
sorry been like that way with that sanction for years some complain they have too many tire choices , who runs an open tire rule anymore
I fear your quite clueless on this one Plunks. It would save the big guys money and kill the little guys. Opening the tire rules up means you have to have many different compounds around at all times. When the outlaws ran a true open tire rule, those guys had up to 100 tires along at a given time.
That's right, so lets keep it that way.
[QUOTE=old fan;2016355]how would that work when you don't know how many teams will be there and what race would that pertain you can't do that at every track that just can not work[/QUO
Sure it would tracks do it all the time used to run at a local track near me it was asphalt at the time they done it every week they had you buy a set of tires when you come in the gate every week ended the tire issue it is really pretty simple.
Paragraphs man... Use em.
There are no "medical labs" doing the testing. They use a combination of gas chromatography/mass spectrometry and vapor distillation, something medical labs have no use for. No offense, but this is also a poor explanation of the purposes of tire dope, and the way in which it's achieved.
Thanks for breaking that down for everybody that doesn't fully understand it.
Totally agree , a friend of mine who doped his tires for asphalt racing would always wrap up his tires in plastic I asked him about the plastic wrap he said it was to keep the chemicals in the tire.Well the last time I went to a big dirt race I noticed everyone had their tires wrapped in plastic. Hmmmm?????