re: George's autox/track tires!

[Tessie McMillan <tessmc@domain.elided>]

Wow George - this just goes to show that I *don't* get out much!!!

Thanks! OK Glenn, never mind, you guys have convinced me. But I still 
think autocrossing on *street tires* is more fun than a barrel of 
monkeys...

Tess

> > (snip) ... maybe I don't get out much, but I've never heard of a "not a
> > track  tire, it's an autocross tire". It's been a few years since I
> > autcrossed regularly, but the folks I autocrossed with used the same 
tires

> Hi Tess,
> 
> Believe it or not, there have been different track and autocross tires for
> some time. 
- snip -
> was the "Street TD", and is still used today for vintage racing. BFGoodrich
> was next with two compounds for their Comp TA R-1 and, for a while, their
> Autocross tire had an even shorter life than the Hoosiers. BFG eventually
> went back to one compound, but then abdicated their great popularity by
> producing the lesser performance G-Force tire, and serious Autocrossers
> deserted BFG like the plague. Currently, Hoosier radials come in Autocross
> and road racing compounds. The tread depth is approxamitely .010 inch
> (really!), which wears off very quickly, leaving just two circumfrential
> grooves around this "DOT-Legal" tire.
> 
> In the days of BFG dominence, I remember seeing some of their contract
> drivers at the SCCA Solo II Championships having their tires shaved to 1/64
> in.tread depth. In other words, a one run tire. This just goes to show that
> "extremism" can affect almost anything (surely, you seal your track tires in
> garbage bags during the winter, so they don't deteriorate from exposure to
> ozone?).

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