i really don't remember when those tires came out. i know at some tracks around here, when i started racing edm's, they were already using them. prop & wheels in tamaqua, pa comes to mind. i was racing at macungie memorial park in the main building, and there, we were using the crps's with the large spikes.Charlie don't surf wrote:I want to know who the heck decided that the Shuey spikes would hook on that surface?
i know ROH73 raced hardwood around here before i got into racing in '91. there was like a year between when he stopped and i started. he might be able to shed some light on it.
as amx said, it was most likely just one of those things that someone stumbled upon. being as though running mid-motor wasn't the norm in the early 90's, the cars pushed reall bad on the hardwood, and it was tough to try and dial it out. running the skinny schumacher's on the back, you got rid of half the tire patch, and it freed the car up to roll through the corners much better. yet still had plenty of bite to come up of the corner. the reduction of rotating mass was nice, too. especially when we were running a 27t.