different idea for a track day

[David88vert]

Here is the problem with the idea. You have this every Friday night at Commerce. The street cars running regular radials don't lay down any rubber on the track, so you basically will waste the track prep. If you don't think so, go to Commerce and see how you will run 0.5-1.0 sec slower than MMP, Steele, SDR, etc.

The V8s will still have the advantage. The serious guys will just run a bigger width and diameter street tire, and will still have a good patch, since most will be RWD. The FWD imports will mostly be stuck on 7-8" width wheels max.

Additionally, most of the imports and street ready cars will likely be manual. Automatics will have the advantage as almost all street tires will be radials. The stick cars will shock the tires harder, so the fast autos will have a huge advantage there also.

Slightly built, FWD, stick shift cars should suffer the most - which is what most of the people on this forum would be.

[40th GT]

Here is the problem with the idea. You have this every Friday night at Commerce. The street cars running regular radials don't lay down any rubber on the track, so you basically will waste the track prep.

Please explain.

Slightly built, FWD, stick shift cars should suffer the most - which is what most of the people on this forum would be.

IA as a whole yes but it looks like in the KF a good number of cars are RWD.

[David88vert]

Please explain.

When you rent the track, they prep the surface with VHT. As the drag car do burnouts, launch, etc. their soft tires leave a rubber surface on the pavement. Radial tires are poor for launching - the rubber compund is too hard it balls up and gets shot into the cars wheel wells, except a tiny bit. Radial tires destroy a race track, because they ball and chunk up the layer of rubber on the track surface, which is bad for the starting line, and they cause bald spots when they spin.

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And, in order to have enough head count to pay for the track, you will need to attract more than just the KF. You will need lots of people from IA, plus other forums.