Just a thoughtb

[Josh Bayko]

It's a enviromental issue and a safety issue. Hoosier advises against chemical additives for safety reasons. As for enhanceing the performance of a tire it will. But it's really only worthwhile if your racing at a track or sancantioning body mandates a single hard compound. You can soften a 40 to the point that is acts like a 20. But you also get the wear of a 20 not the 40. But if you have multible choices 10,20,30 or 40. If you want to run a 20 you run it you gain zero by doping a 40. No real point in doping tires when you have choices. Now if Big Bad sanction say you can only run this one compound the yes you wil have a performance advantage. IMHO

Tire doping is way more rampant if series where they mandate a single tire one compound. Doping is common. UMP lucas Woo all have choices of tire avaible to use. It's sorta counter productive to dope in this type of situation.

For what ever reason fans want to believe doping is out of control and everybody is doing it. Just not true. Some of this fire get fueled by other drivers who are not performing at a level that they should be. So they say we are getting beat by guys cheating their tires, Well sorry cupcake you're just not getting your car set up or just not getting it done behind the wheel. It's always easy to blame the Boogie man for your lack of skills.

Solid post, and I agree with the sentiment, but straight up softening is pretty low on the list of reasons folks juice their tires.

[Bubstr]

Seems a lot of racers couldn't afford to run what ya brung and a lot of fans couldn't afford to watch them. Nor would they want to. Be careful what you wish for. Those old wedge cars looked neat, but most o the races where stinkers.

[formercrewguy]

Sure.....and lets bring back radios and mirrors too. NOT!!

[Barbecueboy]

Yeah, and for shoots and googles, let's test tires like we did way back then too pfffffttttt.......


Wouldn't that be a riot, lol.

[jog49]

Open rules would widen the gap between the haves and have nots.
What you would end up with is very fast cars and very slow cars, which always results in a demolition derby type atmosphere. Soon, open SLM events would have four or five cars competing and you would start complaining that you are not paying $25 to see five cars race. Best to leave well enough alone. Car counts are already dropping with things as they are.

[oldfart50]

Then your boy wouldnt be racing as they couldnt afford it. The cost of racing is already killing the sport and that would just kill it faster. This isnt 1982 and 99.9% of the drivers today cant even weld little lone be that innovative. I cant think of a single team that would be able to afford that.

Why not let the super late models do whatever they want... No rules... Put the rules on the crates and mods...that's for the common folk...let the rich boys run what you brung like in the old days..no rules just the fastest and most inovative won

[Josh Bayko]

Then your boy wouldnt be racing as they couldnt afford it. The cost of racing is already killing the sport and that would just kill it faster. This isnt 1982 and 99.9% of the drivers today cant even weld little lone be that innovative. I cant think of a single team that would be able to afford that.

The house cars (Richards, Pierce, etc...) would have a leg up on everybody else in a truly open scenario, because they are already building their own stuff, and not buying a roller and having to change a bunch of stuff on it.

[pierceFAN]

It's not a whole lot different that what goes on now..what's the huge cost increase??? Chassis will be the same... You can only have so much horsepower so building some extravagant high dollar horsepower motor would be wasted power...what's left?? Tires?? Shocks?? What is it that you all say is gonna cost so much? Just curious...keep in mind...this is just a topic for discussion. Something I've wondered several years ago