Exaggerated? Don't see how, £8+£2+£7+£2= £19. Looks like the thick end of 20 to me. Sorry you're going to come back and say you're going to reuse the inserts, fine. £8+£7=£15. Still only getting a fiver back from that twenty!
I didn't want to be on anything, let alone a high horse, but that was a great idea in a open tyre competition and I see its just been slapped aside with no real justification. Just arguements that could be applied to both sides.
I agree with Andyp, with the amount of money we invest in the hobby, tyres at an individual event isn't an issue, but it does add up and anywhere we can reduce costs to everyone I'm all for trying and see where it goes. If it did turn in to a 12th style tyre war I'd be saying we should look at it but did Simon have lots of sets? Did he have them trued to elastic bands on wheels, did he use additive, did he chunk them and replace them every run, did they wear or change over the day or did his car come off covered in tyre dust? The answer to all these is No!
And for most of the reasons above I'd like to try the VBC's. Yes they are £22 a set and we'll probably want to spend another £4 on better inserts but I'm sure they'd give alot of the benefits of foam without being foam.
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