the current debate on tyres is interesting , from my point of view as a shop i cannot be expected to carry enough tyres of all compounds for all weathers, so having two makes my life easier, it doesn't matter to me which two. but that said adding a third type wouldn't be a big deal, opening it up to any tyre would be a huge deal, in theory next year GRP will have a wet and dry compound in the conespike, BB will have the current mini spike and the new stud both in wet and dry and schumacher will have the new minispikeII, as an example for this weekend i have 130 sets of schumacher yellows and the same in BB pinks, i have alimited amount of schumacher greens and no BB greens, if it rains i will still have 130 sets of yellows, no problem for me as they remaining nationals will use them.
As for GRP its a bit catch 22 for them, to specify that tyre the clubs need to see them run, but everyone is running the usual tyres, so no one is sure if they will be better/same/worse, without any data the clubs are sticking to what they know so they don't get chosen.
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