Guess what I just read in today's Autosport!?
<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Trebuchet MS, Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Formula 1 teams have tested treaded tyres as the sport tries to work out how to control speeds for next season. Two types of tyres with reduced contact patches between rubber and road have been tested.
One has an extra, fifth circumferential groove, the other has that, together with some diagonal lateral grooves.
Both types of tyre degraded rapidly.<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>
This is
not good news! Doesn't anybody in authority actually
read this forum?!