Tire cheating isn't as rampant as one thinks

jdearing

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Many people are always accusing guys of tire doping..

But in 2017, DIRTcar & WoO submitted over 1000 tires for testing and only one came back illegal. Of course that was Chris Madden at the World 100 at Eldora in September..
 
Of course, these are mostly bigger shows where the tires are getting sampled and not so much the weekly shows..

Tracks should take samples nightly, say 5 or 6 samples, and then randomly send in just one or two of those samples.. That would lesson their costs by only sending in a couple of samples but still have 5 or 6 guys wondering...
 
Tire dope is a crutch for guys that can’t make their cars work. If you’re a top 12 car tire dope will take you to a top 5. Guys that win know how to set up a car and drive it’s wheels off
 
Yeah you gotta love it when you watch a guy and he is a solid 5th-6th place car for 12-15 laps of a feature. Then a caution flies and on the restart its like everyone is running on 6 cylinders except him. He's in a different zone.
 
jdearing said:
Many people are always accusing guys of tire doping..

But in 2017, DIRTcar & WoO submitted over 1000 tires for testing and only one came back illegal. Of course that was Chris Madden at the World 100 at Eldora in September..
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Lots of cheating before tech was put in place. Very little cheating when racers and teams know they will be teched. Get it?

Many racers and consultants still will do anything for them or their team to win. It's still happening locally. Look close...you'll figure it out!
 
Many times this stuff is done by low budget teams or so I've heard to get the tires to stay competitive longer/save money not to make the tires perform better when compared to new ones. Maybe these teams in WoO or whatever have a large enough budget that saving tires isn't a big issue.
 
NASCAR has the strictest tech procedures in any form of stock car racing in the USA and on the engineering/crew chief side of it cheating or otherwise pushing the rules is the core piece of their job description.

Tech only makes the challenge of finding how to get away with it a little more challenging.
 
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Just legalize tire prep, it really isnt that big of a deal. I have worked on teams where we have ran prepped and non-prepped tires. We won with both and can honestly not tell a big difference. The people who are whining the most are the ones who arent gonna do what it takes to win, period. IF you dont put in the time and effort, and have a good driver, tire prep will not take you to the front.
 
If you pull that genie out of the bottle though, what it actually does and what people think it does is still going to be the problem.

Does anyone really want to give racers another thing to spend money on and then complain that someone else is spending more on it and that's why they win?
 
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