Tire Doping and Tire Testing Explained

[MotoMatt]

At the local level not everyone is buying new tires every week, especially not four of them. When I was working on a car we bought a new left rear maybe once a month and I don't think I ever remember a new front tire on the car in all the years I worked on it. Now, this was an IMCA car and it was on the old hard as hell American Racers and Hoosiers, all we did was grind them every week in the shop between races, we never ground tires at the track. Today, you couldn't do that.

[HatTrick]

Paragraphs man... Use em.

You must have gotten frustrated before reading through the whole thing. As I explain in my last line, I have never been able to get the return function to work on this forum. It all looks good in the reply box, as soon as I submit it, all of my returns are removed.

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.

Considering the fact that most sanctioning bodies post the actual letters and results from the lab they send it to, I can confidently say that medical test labs are indeed used. As far as a poor explanation, please do enlighten us, as I've yet to see you make an effort to do so.

[chupp n bloomer fan]

You must have gotten frustrated before reading through the whole thing. As I explain in my last line, I have never been able to get the return function to work on this forum. It all looks good in the reply box, as soon as I submit it, all of my returns are removed. Considering the fact that most sanctioning bodies post the actual letters and results from the lab they send it to, I can confidently say that medical test labs are indeed used. As far as a poor explanation, please do enlighten us, as I've yet to see you make an effort to do so.

Well, you covered the two replies I seen.

Thanks for the info man. Good stuff.

[Kromulous]

Funniest thing to me is, a 100 lap race, tire dope wont hold up. Meaning you will have over a second a lap fall off from the start to the end of the race.

30 to 50 lap races you can notice it on the watch.