[Chrislong]

I agree with Matt, but then with a control tyre, its a closed market and there is no competition on price or quality as we're running those tyres regardless.

So price is higher than what is reasonable

Quality is lower than what I would call acceptable.

This means it is screaming out for competition for this product, if there were competition such as from the well made GRP tyres which we can't currently use, then there is incentive for Schu and BB to get there act together.

I had an idea I chatted with Tom about, and I wasn't going to post it until we chatted more and spoke to PW at weekend for opinions. But here goes: what I said was to nominate the control tyre for nationals as (commercially available) "Minispike" of any brand. So we currently have Schu, BB and GRP currently, and if Amark, Proline, Losi, JConcepts wish to introduce a "Minispike" then they're allowed too.

On the downside, I am against having too many options so id be happy for my idea to be lost in time....

But there is no competition in the marketplace for tyres, and id like there to be some to keep the manufacturers on their toes, rather than up'ping the price til it looks silly.

My other thought, is to have 3 tyre options rather than 2.

Chris