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    Quote Originally Posted by jwasilko View Post
    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Greg Amy View Post
    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.
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    Quote Originally Posted by jwasilko View Post
    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.

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    Nope, done beating my head against that wall.
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    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).
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    Quote Originally Posted by JeffGio View Post
    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.

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