jmeris Posted June 12, 2006 Share Posted June 12, 2006 (as posted in Honda-tech-for those of you who haven't seen it) Sorry if this topic has been covered (I don't think it has) I presume the "official" spec tire for ALL Honda Challenge Racers is going to be the Toyo RA-1. Anyone that wants to win and collect the contingency prize money MUST use the RA-1's. However, I noticed that some of the east coasters (and mid-west??) have Kuhmo as their official spec tire. Does this mean we have the option to use anytire we'd like (besides Toyo) and forgo the Toyo prize money? OR Do we declare Toyo as the OFFICIAL SPEC TIRE for ALL Honda Challenge racers at the nationals? If this is the case, should it be a rule that ALL SESSIONS: practice, qualifying, qualifying race, and championship race MUST be run on Toyo's? I just want every HC racer at the Nationals to be on the same page jmeris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twgracer Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 Here, maybe this quote from nationals in the post above will clerify it better. As I understand, Toyo,and only Toyo can be ran at nationals. Honda Challenge was chosen to be part of the spec tire program in order to try and deliver the largest possible benefit to HC racers nationwide running in the front, middle, and back of the fields in line with the ideas laid out above. However, in our attempt to please the largest number of people possible, we elected to exclude one region from this program because they were a very unique case where that specific region was able to gain lucrative support from another tire vendor and we tried to make a compromise in favor of the racers. However, we did not feel it was appropriate to allow an open tire for the National race as it would not give us the even playing field we were after and allow us to seek further benefits for that race. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom91ita Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 this is a joke, right? people are still debating this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jmeris Posted June 13, 2006 Author Share Posted June 13, 2006 this is a joke, right? people are still debating this? Sorry if this topic has been covered (I don't think it has) jmeris point me in the right direction- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zuperdave Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 Try this. http://www.nasaforums.com/viewtopic.php?t=7575 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tom91ita Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 point me in the right direction- here is part of the debate: http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1490490&page=1 more here: http://www.honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1513893&page=1 basically search honda tech for "nasa toyo spec tire" etc. tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
civicrr Posted June 13, 2006 Share Posted June 13, 2006 Jonathan, The RA-1 will be the only tire run @ the Nationals. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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