Speaking of tires. The tires in all the pics Ive ever posted are four plus yrs old now. David the Nascar guy has always said he doesn't like the Hoosier bias's and I should at least get a set of Goodyear bias's. I took his advice and contacted a local GT2/3 racer who sells used Goodyears from the Nascar Canadian Tire Series cars (NCATS) for $200 a set they are supposed to last two weekends.
The Good boots are a #D2265 and are supposed to be 1.5 to 2 sec a lap faster than the Hoosiers around 2.5 mi Mosport. I saw why David doesnt like the Hoosiers. You can see how soft the sidewall is, no pic but the Goodyear has a substantially stiffer sidewall! By hand the Goodyear sidewall will only move about 1/4" and the whole sidewall moves as one, way stiffer.
This was backed up by David. He said his team mounted a GoPro to watch the front tires. He said with the soft sidewall the driver would have to "wait on the tire" to get finished rolling over before the car would start to actually turn. David said he wants to send me up a few sets of Cup radials from Sonoma or the Glen and make it really go. Im not there yet.
The NCATS series grew out of the old Canadian CASCAR late model series. The cars are a Late Model type 3 link with a glass body not a Nascar truck arm/metal body. Early NCATS had a Camaro clip. They run across the country probably a third of the races are road courses. As well as their own races they are support races for the Nascar Trucks at Mosport and for the Toronto Indy. They have a 600hp Nascar spec engine and GM single piston Late Model type brakes. Min weight 3000.
