Originally Posted by
wingman2
With regards to tyres, and tyres chunking, personally, I usually buy 6 sets of GRP Magenta fronts and 6 sets of GRP Pink rears. We normally run 1 practice heat, with 4 qualifiers and then a final. Each set gets used once per race day. Race 1 sees tyres ran 1 thru 6, race 2 6 thru to 1. They end up wearing down at the same rate so don't have to worry about ride height changes, or gearing changes, etc. These tyres are now on their 3rd season and racing and still going well and I think its the fact that only one coating of additive goes on them each meeting (so they don't soften up after multiple coatings) plus I cut large wheel arches out of the b'shells so they don't cut into the tyre during an incident. Overall, those compounds work really well for me so have stuck with them over the years and although it's a bit of a payout to start with, overall, I am quids in coz they're still going well! Cheers.
That's exactly what I do...we run 2 quals and a main so I only need 3 sets of dbl pink all around...but running on asphalt I don't get as much races out of them...I usually end up replacing tires about every 4 to 5 races.