I raced at a regional event last week end, now I used 2 sets of tyres we had 4 qualifying rounds and 3 leg finals the qualifying was round by round.
To be honest I ended up having a poor day one of my rear wheels (brand new) is out of shape and that set was awful, shame i didn't realise but hey that's racing.
My point at this meeting were 30 drivers most of which are of a club racer standard most run 1 or 2 sets of tyres, but in the top heat I know of one driver that used 8 pairs of rear tyres don't know how many fronts but 8 sets of rears. Whiles I could see this at a national event but a regional with 30 drivers he didn't even qualify pole now to me that's just excessive, wear was an issue running mini pins indoors.
i made middle of the B effectively running 2 sets of tyres one being rubbish compared to the other did it really Warent 60 quid + in tyres plus rims and insert just for a meeting, I guess it's the drivers choice or if they are a sponsored driver and have a deal on tyre it's not so bad but joe public pay good money to race as well but get beat by the check book racer. I guess it is what it is but to encourage new drivers into the hobby control needs to be gathered or no new blood will enter the hobby as it's far to expensive to be competitive I would be for a control number of tyres for each meeting as previous have said then it's more about management and driver ability.
I probably won't bother with the rest of the regionals due to this I would rather run club races as at the most people have 1 new set for the meeting as its club racing. Just think that guy could have run around on rims and still only been 10 in the C final. Round by round it's not my preferred qualifying method either but that a different topic.
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