Originally Posted by InspGadgt

Spec tires isn't going to save me money unless they are significantly less expensive than normal tires. When racing on asphalt like we do we don't go to the track with 5 different compounds and use whatever works that day. The tire wear is just too high so we have to carry around 1 set of tires per run...so to carry around another compound combination would be another 4 sets of tires per compound combination...not to mention having to re-set up the car for the different tire heights since they won't all wear at the same rate. We just don't have time to do all that in a race day so we use 1 compound combination that works and stick with it. So spec tires or not I'll still be carrying the same amount of tires to the track and still be cutting the same amount of tires. And if those tires don't handle well enough for me then I will lose interest in the class.