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Thus, it would be more apt to say that the "brown water" is perfectly suitable for human consumption, it just tastes like it shouldn't be - the brown water does the job of water sufficiently, but there is a significant decrease in quality. |
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I'd argue from the Daytona performance that the tyres were certainly not fit for human consumption. The wet tyres are particularly abysmal.
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10 Mar 2017, 12:47 (Ref:3717742) | #2479 | |
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The tires that kept blowing over and over all race for them? I guess the prototypes got sick from the brown water but didn't always have to go to the doctor as it ran it's course after a few laps while the gtd's often got so sick from the brown water they had to go to the doctor to get treated.
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Of course, we all realize the issue with the Wet tires is that the track wasn't wet on the banking but was in the infield. Not sure any manufacturer makes a tire which works in the dry at 200 mph and equally well in the wet at half that speed.
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10 Mar 2017, 13:53 (Ref:3717764) | #2483 | |
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Well I don't see any point in distinguishing between wet and dry when both are embarrassingly inferior. My point was that a spec tire doesn't matter so much, but continuing to allow a spec tire to be awful is. And if we agree that continental needs to do some development to their rain tire, then while they're at it they could go ahead and improve their clearly inferior dry tire too, right?
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10 Mar 2017, 14:01 (Ref:3717769) | #2484 | ||
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they don't need to do anything with the dry tire though.
if it were competing against dunlop or michelin is one thing, but it isn't. how can something be inferior if it is the only allowed tire? |
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You seem to be forgetting Michelin's slick treaded intermediate tires used in the WEC. But that's for a damp or drying track/mixed dry and wet, not full wet or full dry.
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10 Mar 2017, 14:10 (Ref:3717775) | #2486 | |
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I'd bet you can make a nice stout or porter out of it!
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10 Mar 2017, 14:40 (Ref:3717784) | #2487 | |
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When it is common knowledge that it is seconds (not tenths) slower than other tires on the same car at the same track?
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When the circuit was fully wet, the tyres were still taking 10 laps to come up to temperature. If it was too dry for the wets they would overheat. These are 2 different issues. |
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Everyone's got the same tire, everyone is going the same speed with that tire. It is a control part. If one team was running a set of Dunlops then there would be an issue. |
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Take your own advice. I said at the bottom... that was MY take. Your post is long, and rambling. If you insist on writing that much, put a TL;DR paragraph at the bottom to summarize what you are speaking about.
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TL;DR is nothing more than laziness. It does nothing to help put forth the point trying to be made. The post was long and "rambling" because it needed to be to clearly outline the point. If you don't like reading such posts, then fine - don't read them. But if you're not going to read such a post, don't reply as if you did. Now unless you'd like to discuss what I actually said in the original post, I suggest we move on, stay on topic, and not get into another pointless p***ing contest. |
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TL;DR is new terminology for me but applies to most IMSA thread posts ever.
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10 Mar 2017, 22:00 (Ref:3717896) | #2496 | ||
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Apparently their rain tires, which were club tires, were crap as well at the Rolex according to a lot of the GTLM drivers
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11 Mar 2017, 04:09 (Ref:3717924) | #2498 | |
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Speaking of rain tires, my weather simulations have it with a chance of rain towards the end of the race. Wouldn't that be fun, a nice little downpour with 20 minutes to go, cars pirouetting in the darkness.
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11 Mar 2017, 11:53 (Ref:3717966) | #2500 | |
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It's pretty obvious a control tire is holding the protoyotpe class back in IMSA. The dozens of prototype teams in WEC is evidence of this.
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