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Originally Posted by Nick Goodall
They managed it ok at the Euro's back a few years ago?? Selected nail varnish i believe it was once you'd glued up your wheels and tyres.
It's all going completely off topic now i realise but it wouldn't hard to do if for arguements sake it was decided at the AGM which tyres would be used at which national, you could turn up at 8:00 am with the tyres already glued (2 sets), give them to Scruiteneering with your Transmitter for them to be marked in the chosen way, then all you would need to do is take them off (rears only) at the end of the qualifying run to give back in with the transmitter so they have both sets and then when you just select which pair of the two you want to use when you scruiteneer the car??
Can't really see why that wouldn't work!?!
All i was originally trying to say is that i think it's a bit off that Schumacher tyres are used 90% of the time around the UK race tracks when they don't generally support this section of R/C any longer yet must make £££'s just from tyres.
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At the Euro's they have a whole day to tech transmitters, cars, etc. At the nationals we would be talking 2hrs tops to mark 240 sets of tires. We are also asking the volunteers in scrutineering to start 2hrs earlier than normal.
Where would all the tires be kept if the transmitter compound is away from scrutineering, say on the rostrum?
Who is going to take the wheels off the cars, because the drivers have to be out to marshal (bearing in mind not everyone has a pit person)?
At the moment scrutineers have 5 mins to take the returned transponders and scrutineer 10 more cars, with this idea they will also have to take in 10 sets of wheels, and give out 10 sets of wheels, you may find them struggling to complete all this in 5 mins.
What happens if it rains and you have 2 sets of dry tires glued up?
Who declares a wet track?
What happens if it rains whilst you are waiting to race and have been through scrutineering? can you change tires? how long will it take? will they have time to re-scrutineer you?
Don't get me wrong, I would like to see limited amount of tires used, however the logistics of implementing it are not easy as you can see.