Siping question

[grt74]

im reading this and i think something that is a factor is heat,if your good for a few laps and they catch back up to you something you need to check is heat and stagger but youll have to do it on the track in a test,check your stagger before and after i think youll be surprised,also check you air tank for water or moisture,these are factors too

[AmickRacing]

This could be an old wives tale, but an old timer once told me that if you're spinning your tires, they will almost never over heat (normal spinning, not boiling them off really bad of course), but if the tire is working hard and loaded up good, it'll create a lot of heat.

Makes sense to me, a tire that's locked down and working hard would have to build more heat than a tire that's spinning a bit because it won't have the traction to build heat.

That sound plausible?

[mab475]

This could be an old wives tale, but an old timer once told me that if you're spinning your tires, they will almost never over heat (normal spinning, not boiling them off really bad of course), but if the tire is working hard and loaded up good, it'll create a lot of heat.

Makes sense to me, a tire that's locked down and working hard would have to build more heat than a tire that's spinning a bit because it won't have the traction to build heat.

That sound plausible?

Exactly what I meant earlier. Not an old wives tale it's actually true.

[4bangerhotrod]

if your spinning your tires you will rip the edges off though and on a hard tire your running on your edges. you can grind them to keep from doing this as bad. but you should try to keep from spinning your tires, some tires if you slip them one time there junk for the rest of the race. it shows up alot at eldora during heat races.

[jrkracing54]

I ran a brand new D55 at Ocala last year for the Thanksgiving race. I was great for about 5-6 laps and then the car went loose. After the race talked to winner Ivadent Lloyd and told him what happened. He said did you spin the tires. I said "probably". He said "you tore all the edges off". He was right tire was junk. He said you gotta baby them until you get heat in them. Lesson learned for me. John 1*