Purple Mafia at it AGAIN!

[Highside Hustler25]

That was an April Fools

No, ya think?🙄

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

No, ya think?

You forgot to use the sarcasm font and everyone else was being serious. My bad for adding clarity.

[Raceready]

I just read somewhere that the WoO will be issuing 4 Hoosier tires that they must run until late summer when then they will be issued another 4 for the remainder of the year.

I heard tell of that ! They are going to use 10 ply sidewalls and a formula based on a top of the line Michelon truck tire for longeviity / durability ...

[ImCryn2]

as long as half the country believes this is anything but corporate greed this will continue. 2021 was a record year for corporate profits, so they are going to keep it up as long as they can get away with it.

exactly!!!!!

[ZERO25]

This inflation is what 81 million people voted in favor of. Supposedly.

I guess the dead ones could care less about Sleepy Joes disaster of our economy..........!

[slmcrewchief99]

I got an email from upper management today that Bridgestone and Continental were taking a 12% to 14% price increase May 1st. Continental owns General, who owns Hoosier. Don't expect them to go down any at all this year. These prices may never go down...

[flagone]

It's sure going to hurt when a guy has a bunch of good used tires, but they don't have the right numbers on the side.

I am sure there will be a burn off period. Not to mention if anyone has any good used tires left after the year we are about to have, then they haven't been racing or looking to get rid of them.

And I still don't know why anyone thinks Hoosier or any goods manufacturer is withholding inventory. Indeed they are making record profits which would also markedly increase if they could fulfill the market demand.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

I am sure there will be a burn off period. Not to mention if anyone has any good used tires left after the year we are about to have, then they haven't been racing or looking to get rid of them.

And I still don't know why anyone thinks Hoosier or any goods manufacturer is withholding inventory. Indeed they are making record profits which would also markedly increase if they could fulfill the market demand.

The year we don't start the season with a decent used inventory is probably our last one. There are people that try to make the operational costs make sense.

[ImCryn2]

I am sure there will be a burn off period. Not to mention if anyone has any good used tires left after the year we are about to have, then they haven't been racing or looking to get rid of them.

And I still don't know why anyone thinks Hoosier or any goods manufacturer is withholding inventory. Indeed they are making record profits which would also markedly increase if they could fulfill the market demand.

When corporate profits are breaking records by selling less product, it's weird that anyone would make excuses for them. They are taking advantage of an already $hitty situation.

[MasterSbilt_Racer]

When corporate profits are breaking records by selling less product, it's weird that anyone would make excuses for them. They are taking advantage of an already $hitty situation.

I've never seen a company bought out and the new owners didn't work to improve margins. We've seen small pieces of evidence of that the last 2 years. We are going to see a huge business reset really soon.

Continental saw plenty of places to improve margins aside from price, but that's going to be part of it

1) way too many different tires that were basically the same. The Lucas tires disappeared almost immediately.

2) too many compounds

3) guys in a big race who paid $160, $100, $30, $0 for the same tires. Plenty of opportunities for improvement there.

That said, with superior economy of scale to AR, and barriers to entry by handing out little checks and hats, their tires are still more expensive.

[flagone]

When corporate profits are breaking records by selling less product, it's weird that anyone would make excuses for them. They are taking advantage of an already $hitty situation.

They are making record profits by selling more tires than they ever have. Not to mention a reduced overhead because of a lack of production staff. I am not making excuses I am giving facts. If you spent any amount of time talking to a distributor or even someone from corporate you might see how stressed out these folks are about the current situation. No one is happy about it or "taking advantage of it".

[bethany948]

Yes, I still don't know why anyone thinks Hoosier or any goods manufacturer is withholding inventory.

[Barbecueboy]

Instead of thinking and being reasonable people these days think they have to have what they want,when they want it and exactly how they want it…….

And when people don’t get it that way they think they are so important that they blame everyone and everything up to and including hiding inventory to create false demand and higher prices for them.

I wish all those people would just go back to sleep.

[nc mudcat]

..... but Hoosier is too big to fail.....

Which is what Toys R Us, Ringling Bros., Sports Authority, Compaq, Blockbuster, etc. probably thought.

[zyoung25]

It just completely blows my mind that we have a tire shortage, and most series are still only allowing one brand. I'm glad that a couple of my local tracks have seen the light and opened up the options.

I know allowing AR's would not fix the issue, but I don't know how they couldn't help a little bit