CBP - Cheatin' Bastard Practice

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Originally Posted by evarner

I appreciate all the thoughts, guidance and insights in this thread.

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Eric, please understand what we say here is seen by drivers / officials from other regoins and up to a National level. no matter what we do, the official way is all we can post here.
please contact your series direcotrs on this issue.


AL, we need to spend some time on the phone this week.

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I am out of RA1's, so basically I am for the latest rule of weekend 2, however I understand the wanting of running RA1's for those that have them....but it sucks that they are faster than the 888's.

I ran the 888's all weekend, except for qual on day 2.

I like them on the wet track on Saturday R1....they were decent in R2.

I hated them R3 very badly....but modified pressures for R4 and they were pretty darn good the whole race.

I am not sure of lap times for the day, but seat of pants says they are considerably slower than RA1's.

As for wear... MSRC isn't too hard on tires, but they look perfect after all weekend.

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Originally Posted by Rob Liebbe

Is anyone talking to Toyo? Coming from the tire industry, and spending a LOT of time driving and evaluating tires, there can be changes made (some simple, some difficult) to a tire to alter its performance. I would love to hear what Toyo is saying about this. Anybody got a good contact number at Toyo?

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From:http://www.aicmctexas.com/forums/vie...328&highlight=

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Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 11:33 am Post subject:

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Just got off the phone with Candice at Toyo (Cali office) and she confirmed the following:

1. Max Tire Temp: 250F
2. No published "ideal" hot temp.
3. Tire Pressure: High 30's to Low 40's
4. Tire does NOT need to be heat cycled prior to use
5. Compound is the same down to the cords. This is different to the RA1 which had a softer outer rubber and hard carcass. According to Toyo, they should be consistant down to the cords.

If anyone wants to talk to Toyo about the R888, call (800) 678-3250 10a-7p CST and dial exention 490 (Customer Relations). There are two tire engineers there that are familiar with the R888 tires. However I did not speak to them directly.

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I ran a set of R888's during a test session back in January and liked them. However, going from 4-year old 1's might have been the reason, but I just started my pressures about 6 lbs higher to come off track at 36-38 all the way around instead of 31-32 for the 1's.