Your Thoughts on Mandating 200+TW "Street Tires" in Improved Touring?

[jwasilko]

I think that it may be high time to put IT on street tires. There are other classes such as STL and Limited Prep Production, and Touring that offer much of what Improved Touring used to.

Solo has done the hard work here and my understanding is their rule set works. I am told they have 3 competitive tires. There is a provision to exclude a tire if it is a ringer.


By going to street tires it would be a dramatic cost savings money that could be invested in entry fees.


The IT7 guys I race with run 100tw Nittos and we are getting 5 – 6 weekends. I can only imagine 200tw would add more weekends. We also found that since going to harder tires brakes and bearings and such are lasting longer as well.


SCCA has too many classes that are very similar. Street Tires would differentiate IT.

It's an idea with merit, though the lack of a good rain tire seemed to be an issue as we saw by the loss of two IT7 cars in the rain at Palmer.

Do 100-200TW race group and keep us away from the spec pinatas and maybe....

[Greg Amy]

It's an idea with merit, though the lack of a good rain tire seemed to be an issue as we saw by the loss of two IT7 cars in the rain at Palmer.

Those had nothing to do with rubber compound. Those were due to being cheap and not swapping to tires that had tread.

[jwasilko]

Those had nothing to do with rubber compound. Those were due to being cheap and not swapping to tires that had tread.

new NT01 don't have much tread. RA1 would be a good rain.

[Greg Amy]

new NT01 don't have much tread. RA1 would be a good rain.

Also note that many of them don't have functional wipers, let along window defrosters.

[JeffGio]

Nope, done beating my head against that wall.

[gran racing]

If this works like we think it might, damn right there will be a "who makes the fastests 200TW" war.

Select a spec manufacturer(s).

[Ron Earp]

Nope, done beating my head against that wall.

Now now, you just can't quit.

Off topic, I do think about just doing endurance racing only. More bang for the buck overall, less equipment around.

[dickita15]

It's an idea with merit, though the lack of a good rain tire seemed to be an issue as we saw by the loss of two IT7 cars in the rain at Palmer.

Do 100-200TW race group and keep us away from the spec pinatas and maybe....

Good point in that we would need to have a rain strategy. at Palmer i had rain tires in the trailer but honestly in the 3 year i had raced Palmer I had never seen that much water on the track.
that event also makes me happy i had a defroster and heater core. the two cars that crashed both had visibility problems and could not see the standing water.