AKA releases Martin Bayer from team
10-09-2014, 12:35 PM
#76
10-09-2014, 01:01 PM
#77
Big races like the Worlds/Neo/DNC should be stock races with racers running what comes out of the box. Testing should be done early in the season as small races. Ty's an amazing driver but he ran parts, tires, fuel gun that nobody can buy. Now people will flock to buy a D812 thinking there getting the same product only to be disappointed.
10-09-2014, 02:25 PM
#78
Tech Regular
The Pro-lines on Ty's car at the end of the race still had over half the tread while 2nd and 3rd (AKA tires) were balder than me. I can see the red foams thru them. Obviously AKA doesn't have as good of a tire for the concrete track as Pro-line does with this X compound. I have always ran AKA but if I have an abrasive track to run on then the X compound will be tried.
10-09-2014, 02:27 PM
#79
Why do people make comments as if Hudy/X-Ray had no clue this was going on? They most-likely instigated the whole thing - X-Ray car not on pace all week, only one car in the final, Ty has been dominant, copy his tires just in case because those definitely don't appear to be the issue.
No Pro driver runs a previously-untested-by-him tire for the first time in a Worlds final without being heavily influenced by their largest source of income, their chassis sponsor. It rings even more true imo when AKA doesn't mention X-Ray or Hudy by name, only his "chassis sponsor" in their statement.
No Pro driver runs a previously-untested-by-him tire for the first time in a Worlds final without being heavily influenced by their largest source of income, their chassis sponsor. It rings even more true imo when AKA doesn't mention X-Ray or Hudy by name, only his "chassis sponsor" in their statement.
My thoughts exactly.
Purely speculating, but I think aka is taking a stand against sponsor 'a' making choices (out of desperation) that negatively effect or appear to effect sponsor 'b'.
More so than taking a stand personally against Bayer.
10-09-2014, 03:14 PM
#80
The Pro-lines on Ty's car at the end of the race still had over half the tread while 2nd and 3rd (AKA tires) were balder than me. I can see the red foams thru them. Obviously AKA doesn't have as good of a tire for the concrete track as Pro-line does with this X compound. I have always ran AKA but if I have an abrasive track to run on then the X compound will be tried.
AKA's hardest tire is their Medium compound, as they discontinued Hard some time ago. They did not bring a special compound for this race.
10-09-2014, 03:36 PM
#82
"Update: A final response from AKA’s Mark Pavidis:"
A cut-and-paste headline from the comments section of the NeoBuggy M. Bayer response article. Full response may be read there.
[Edit. Actually I see now it is directly under the M. Bayer article,]
A cut-and-paste headline from the comments section of the NeoBuggy M. Bayer response article. Full response may be read there.
[Edit. Actually I see now it is directly under the M. Bayer article,]
10-09-2014, 04:15 PM
#86
Xray has spent millions to create the perfect car. It has to be something other than driver/chassis that is keeping the car from the WC win.... ummmkay..... blame it on the tires! thats it.... The WC winning tires have to be the problem. The only NON WC winning item is the chassis and the driver...lol I think it sucks that the chassis spponsor has so much say on the "other" equipment a driver uses. I guess we will see Hudy Tires made by pirelli in the future. That will guarantee the WC in 2016.... u heard it hear first...LMAO
10-09-2014, 04:16 PM
#87
ty wouldhave had the same result on x1 diamond backs or blockades.. boots ran this tire a month before the worlds,its not a special tire,its just a new tread thats not out yet...i think bayer knew his car would suck after 30mins on medium aka's like wheelers car..but seems the aka's got better once they went to slicks in the final
10-09-2014, 04:32 PM
#88
Xray has spent millions to create the perfect car. It has to be something other than driver/chassis that is keeping the car from the WC win.... ummmkay..... blame it on the tires! thats it.... The WC winning tires have to be the problem. The only NON WC winning item is the chassis and the driver...lol I think it sucks that the chassis spponsor has so much say on the "other" equipment a driver uses. I guess we will see Hudy Tires made by pirelli in the future. That will guarantee the WC in 2016.... u heard it hear first...LMAO
10-09-2014, 04:33 PM
#89
ty wouldhave had the same result on x1 diamond backs or blockades.. boots ran this tire a month before the worlds,its not a special tire,its just a new tread thats not out yet...i think bayer knew his car would suck after 30mins on medium aka's like wheelers car..but seems the aka's got better once they went to slicks in the final
10-09-2014, 04:53 PM
#90
I can see it now, "Hudy is proud to announce our range of Luxury Monocoque Royal RC tires, milled from a single piece of billet rubber on our nano precision swiss-german-austrian-slovakian cnc robot, the compound developed by D.A.R.P.A on commission from hudy"