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Originally Posted by HORNDAWG  ...
That being said though, it should be mandatory for the tire mfg's to supply tires to anyone who wishes them and can pay the bill!! The elitist BS that goes on over who can, and who can't, get product is wrong IMO. |
I would be cool with that...With that said does a tire manufacturer have the right to only service full season entries? Take Michelin for example...every contract comes with a tire 'engineer'. Michelin shouldn't have to pay/hire tire 'engineers' for the guys that decide to race once or twice a year. Also goes to planning. If at a Petit LeMans you have a team come out of the wood works and decide they want to race and on Michelins, but Michelin in their planning only has produced the number of tires for the teams they currently had a contract with and doesn't have enough for this new team...then what? The standard allotment is 20 dry tires (more for the longer races). What if it's two teams...or three. How can a tire company plan it's production without knowing exactly how many tires they would need?