Re: rain tires

SimRacer wrote: 
"GDB." <dburdick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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If NASCAR brings rain tires why don't they use them.
Are they no good meaning that Goodyear cannot make a racing rain tire?
If not then a good reason not to by goodyear tires for my car. Then why
not use a tire company that can make rain tires like they do in F1 and
Champ car.
Or is becouse the oval track Taxi drivers are not real race car drivers
but only can turn left or drive in ideal conditions under sunny skies
and no rain.
Real racers can drive in all conditions and can turn to the right.



Actually, the tires are basically fine, but nice try on the rant anyway. No,
the actual reason(s) they can't race stock cars in the rain go farther than
just the tires. First, they're enclosed cockpits, and window fogging is an
issue. They've tested these cars in the wet, and their windows
(windsheild/windscreen especially) fog up too bad to see through. Several
"defroster" systems have been tried (and add weight and electrical load to
the cars) and none have worked properly so far.

Also, they can't find a "perfect" wiper system for the windshield either.
Again several have been tested, and none have really worked out. The best of
the worst was a single arm, large central mounted unit IIRC.

About they only thing that has worked for them is the added brakelight.
Those did seem to work, and could be seen, even through the fogged-up rear
windows.

Also, your comparison to F1 and Champ cars is flawed. Those cars weigh half
as much, and have wings at both ends. That mechanical grip/downforce
increase alone would make them easier to drive in the rain, much less with
treaded tires designed for much lighter cars.

Your rant should've asked why can't stock cars run in the rain like the
Rolex/Grand-Am Daytona Prototypes or GT or GTS class cars do, since they at
least are enclosed and don't have tons of extra downforce, then you may have
come off like you knew something.


You forgot Le Mans racers which covers a lot of different types. Remember open wheelers don't have wipers. the point was they show the rain tires which implies that they are there to be used they also have put wipers on the cup cars and as for fogging the temps are lower and air is moved into an out of the drivers area.
If you said it was unsafe because of the wieght of the cup cars an lack of experience in bad weather that would be more like it.
Almost all other roadracing series run in the rain for there fans and the drivers know how to change for the conditions. NASCAR call full course cautions for hangnails inside a local cautions that other series.
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