I agree with some posts, the aka wheels will be great for US style tyres like proline and AKA as they have chunkier beads and are far baggier on the wheel when fitting so the extra size will make them a better fit and the outside lip missing will be handy. But I know of 3 tracks in the uk you may want them for RHR,storm valley and our dirt track at NBC(

) as far as I know non of these venues hold any sort of sanctioned event. The fact that for 99.9% of uk tracks you want shumacker tyres or BB tyres and the BRCA tyre rule that most regions follow will make these rims useless in uk, so really make no difference.
The big change could be if in the US, japan etc as they use dirt tyres all the time.If they change the rule to suit these rims as they work well for them, then AE, TLR and yokomo could follow making there wheels the design and size of the AKA, this could in time cause a big problem us in the uk as our uk shumacker tyres will not fit the rim! and we could have a period of time when half the cars at a regional and national can't run the control tyre
But if BRCA adopt, then follow the ifmar rule schumacher could be left with no choice than to change their tyre sizes as if not there tyres will only fit their cars
BRCA are quite smart if they adopt the ifmar rule now, as if ifmar changes BRCA can just follow in the future.
So if all the above did happen AKA may start the biggest change since 2.2, and it's not favouring shumacher
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