Purple Mafia at it AGAIN!

[dynotimeonly]

$20.00 price increase across the board. Sprints, late models, modifieds. THIS is out of hand!!

[Jed]

Not sure if you follow the news but inflation is running rampant right now. I priced some farm tires yesterday and was shocked at the price they quoted me.

[Highside Hustler25]

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This!!!!!!!

[Barbecueboy]

When you’re already overpriced it just looks worse when you go up like everything else.

[dirtSLMracing]

Who is the Purple Mafia?

[Knowitall93w]

Hoosier. Keep up

[LM1]

Hoosier Tire - a company based on backdoor dealings AKA Purple Mafia. Would be nice if a good honest company like American Racer would be the tire of choice across America but Hoosier is too big to fail, which is why they charge whatever they want for a bad product. By and large AR's are cheaper and last longer but they don't have the foot hold on multiple disciplines of racing like Hoosier does.

[cjsracing]

hoosier tire - a company based on backdoor dealings aka purple mafia. Would be nice if a good honest company like american racer would be the tire of choice across america but hoosier is too big to fail, which is why they charge whatever they want for a bad product. By and large ar's are cheaper and last longer but they don't have the foot hold on multiple disciplines of racing like hoosier does.

lol lol lol lol

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

Not sure if you follow the news but inflation is running rampant right now. I priced some farm tires yesterday and was shocked at the price they quoted me.

Inflation is bad, but 36% in 8 months?

[dirtSLMracing]

Hoosier. Keep up

10-4.. I figured that someone had given that nickname to Flo or Dirt on Dirt.

[dirtSLMracing]

So what is the price of a late model tire now verse 5 years ago?

[flagone]

In addition to inflation...

anyone else remember that part of Middle School Economics called Supply and Demand?

[over4T]

Was at the local speed shop the other day and the owner told me that Hoosier is now charging them a flat $20 per tire for shipping. Used to be only a few bucks for one or a whole truck load. Stopped making our favorite Dirt Bozz tires and a G60 IMCA tire is now $140. A 10" RC4 is right at $200. Good grief!!!

P.S. Our electric company, the notorious PG&E, got a 9% rate increase in January and another 12% last month. For the math dummies that's 21% in 3 months.

[billetbirdcage]

So what is the price of a late model tire now verse 5 years ago?

Depends on what tire your talking but I would say 5 years ago most where under or at 150.00 (130.00 to 150.00 range for most)


Middle of last year a crate 21 tire was 160ish and now 235.00


The biggest issue is even getting tires, Good luck on that one if you not a national series regular. Best you gonna do right now is go to track and hope the sanctioning body has tires and even then your limited to only a few tires.

[ZERO25]

In addition to inflation...

anyone else remember that part of Middle School Economics called Supply and Demand?

I believe the real problem lies with those 81 million.... inc some dead ones!......just sayin!