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Please don't change the rule. I run an ITB Mustang, a very heavy car that would benifit from the change, but I just ordered more 6 x 15 by 4.25 rims from spinwerkes at about $250 a shot. They can make any bolt pattern you want and come in at 13 pounds. That now gets me to 12 rims and a change is going to cost me money. Just to prove that light weight rims help, at Roebling Road we were able to repeat a 3 tenths of a second lap time diference when we went from the light weight rims to a 20 pound steel rim. We ran back to back testing for an entire test day. I don't know what a wider wheel will gain but we will have to test to find out.
It is just like the tubing size change for cages. There was a change back in 04/05 we took advantage of that that only required bars had to be .095 x 1.75 etc... Well 2 years later they change them again, we could have built a cage just as strong just lighter ( we are still 50 pounds over). I really liked it when the rules were constant, this moving target a.k.a. "prod stuff" is making me crazy. We are not there yet but I agree with Knestis, and Amy are we not starting to slip down hill? [/b]
Understand that this is just a post form a singular gentleman. NOT something that is even remotely on the radar of the CRB.