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Originally Posted by smOkin
Oh, and have bowties been discontinued? So its just holeshots that can be used?
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Hi!
Would like to know what's going on too.
This is what I have heared so far:
Proline doesn't make bowtie anymore. But they would have agreed to make a batch for the euro's, which you can buy from the local shop trackside.
Imo, that's plain stupid. The bowties are quite crappy anyway, and now we will use them as a control tyre even when they are not in production anymore. In theory people are not able to practise with them, as they are only available at the track when the euro's start (not many shops in belgium stock other offroad tyres than the ones used in our national series). Looks to me like the austrian local shop still has loads of bowties from the 2006 euros which it wants to get rid of :-)
All this can be easily solved by just using holeshot as the 2wd control tyre too. Makes life a lot easier, and for some a lot cheaper. For example I do 4wd only since I'm there anyway, but I mainly focus on 2WD. If 2wd and 4wd have the same tyres, this saves me lots of money on tyres as I can use the slightly worn ones from 2WD. If we have to run bowtie in 2wd I can simply toss them in the bin afwterwards, useless tyre.
Last euro's in finland, wasn't that also holeshot for 2wd and 4wd?
I hope many of you share my opinion of using holeshot for both classes, and can get the discussion going so we can get some decent info regarding this issue.
bye!