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- Subject: Re: Tires : Slicks vs. Treaded: Help Please
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- From: dave.williams@chaos.lrk.ar.us (Dave Williams)
- Date: 10 Oct 92 06:36:00 GMT
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- -> "Grip" is also caused by the tire surface conforming to the road
- -> surface at a macroscopic level. A race tire will hold stones in the
- -> rubber. All the way around
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- Soft autocross, drag, or dirt track tires do this, yes. Back when I
- was a newbie, I was in the pits and heard this weird rustling noise
- behind me. It was some guys pushing a single seater back from a DNF to
- its pit. The tires had picked up a number of cigarette butts, rocks,
- sand, some gum wrappers, and (on the right front) a dime. They looked
- like sugar froster black donuts.
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- Of course, while the car is under power and moving this junk gets
- thrown or scrubbed off.
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