Ran five 35 mins practice sessions on Friday in the dry.
Ran one ten minute session that was semi damp, one 18 min qualifying in the wet & one 22 min race on a drying track on Saturday.
Sunday was all dry sessions with one ten min practice, 18 min qualifying & 22 min race.
Now these were all done on tires we had used the previous year & also that we had used for part of a weekend this year at the Toronto Indy race. As I am sure most have figured out these are Toyo's that we were using in the Canadian F1600 Series.
I figure I saved over two grand this weekend on tires & possible upwards of three grand compared to an SCCA weekend to be at the pointy end of the grid.
The reason I say that is because for that long testing on Friday for sure I would have used a set & a half of tires including flipping them. On Saturday I would have likely scrubbed a set of stickers in the first session would have used wets for qualifying & likely tried to use them for the race where I would have completely worn them out by the halfway mark. I say this thinking the track was wet as we all ran a wet set up however the dry line was there by lap 3 or so. On Sunday we would have used up the set we scrubbed on Saturday AM during practice & qualifying & possibly put on something new for the race.
Now this weekend we has 27 cars take the green flag per race day I believe...not a bad turn out for 1600's anywhere for a regional series is it!
I am sure the cost/enjoyment factor are a good reason why so many cars made it out.
With that said, I am not suggesting the SCCA adopt this as I believe far too many people would be against it due to being a DOT tire but looking at my pocket book it did make sense for the series here to use it. I am simply reflecting on what would have been a major cost for the weekend. I thought about this when reading one of the threads with someone asking advice about being a new open wheel racer. Chris Livingood posted about travel/ accommodation being one of the largest expenses along with tires. That started me to figure out what a difference this past weekend was.
Ran one ten minute session that was semi damp, one 18 min qualifying in the wet & one 22 min race on a drying track on Saturday.
Sunday was all dry sessions with one ten min practice, 18 min qualifying & 22 min race.
Now these were all done on tires we had used the previous year & also that we had used for part of a weekend this year at the Toronto Indy race. As I am sure most have figured out these are Toyo's that we were using in the Canadian F1600 Series.
I figure I saved over two grand this weekend on tires & possible upwards of three grand compared to an SCCA weekend to be at the pointy end of the grid.
The reason I say that is because for that long testing on Friday for sure I would have used a set & a half of tires including flipping them. On Saturday I would have likely scrubbed a set of stickers in the first session would have used wets for qualifying & likely tried to use them for the race where I would have completely worn them out by the halfway mark. I say this thinking the track was wet as we all ran a wet set up however the dry line was there by lap 3 or so. On Sunday we would have used up the set we scrubbed on Saturday AM during practice & qualifying & possibly put on something new for the race.
Now this weekend we has 27 cars take the green flag per race day I believe...not a bad turn out for 1600's anywhere for a regional series is it!
I am sure the cost/enjoyment factor are a good reason why so many cars made it out.
With that said, I am not suggesting the SCCA adopt this as I believe far too many people would be against it due to being a DOT tire but looking at my pocket book it did make sense for the series here to use it. I am simply reflecting on what would have been a major cost for the weekend. I thought about this when reading one of the threads with someone asking advice about being a new open wheel racer. Chris Livingood posted about travel/ accommodation being one of the largest expenses along with tires. That started me to figure out what a difference this past weekend was.
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