Quote Originally Posted by ShadowBolt View Post
I don't think anyone here in Texas has set a track record on 22 h/c tires. Here is what I know for a fact because I saw it happen. I hired a very well known driving coach a few years ago at TWS. After lunch he told me if I put on new tires I would pick up two seconds. I called BS but he said he had seen the same thing while coaching Tyler in a CMC car at the same track. I put on a set of stickers and yes I went two second quicker in the next session. Maybe spring rates have something to do with it. I know I'm hard on the RR's because everyone says if you get them too hot they will not fully recover. I have been known to slide the car way more than I should.
I have been wondering if maybe Toyo is telling the truth about the tires. Maybe we are all so much faster than we were back in the day. I know I was telling Bryan how damn fast Jeff Burch used to be at Hallett. He would be half a lap ahead of the rest of the field. I used to accuse him of smoking a cigarette during the Hallett races. I have never kept up with lap times much but I was shocked last year when BL told me that we were running lap times way quicker than Jeff used to (and we are certainly not one of the fastest guys). If running faster laps is causing the h/c issue AI should have had the problem we are having now even back when CMC was using "thin to win" tires in big races.


Oh and by the way if your car does not like the first three heat cycles I know a guy or two that would be glad to put those heat cycles on them for you......free of course.

JJ
We all know it takes a combination of conditions to break track records......but i've run the same time (within .003) 2 years apart and both times were on "old" tires. I guess my car setup, etc. just seems to work better once the tires start to slide a little more than they do with stickers.


So sure, I'll let you run a set of my stickers on Friday and Saturday....then on Sunday we'll switch and you run what I was running for Sunday! LOL