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Originally Posted by GTRMagic
And in the top series of the world, NASCAR/F1/DTM etc, do they make their racing toys run on worn, 2 year old rubber in testing, or brand new shiny allocations for everyone to use at that test only, any way they see fit?  |
...and of course their budgets are dramatically higher than VASC teams plus no-one "makes" teams run around on worn, 2 year old rubber in testing but if teams choose to use that older rubber rather than some of their more recent, better condition tyres (most likely kept for race meetings) then that is a choice the teams make.
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Originally Posted by Ospi
I don't know of any other series where tyres aren't a free allocation for testing. Is it a "cost saving" measure? If so, Penske would like a word...
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It is a cost saving measure and there's no evidence that the tyre let go simply because of its age - may well have sliced it on the inside of a kerb or something like that.