Mike Baures
Joined: 10 Dec 2003
Posts: 58
New postPosted: Mon 08 27, 2007 9:55 pm Post subject: Reply with quote
“Blistered tires normally come from the lack of tire wear. If the tire doesn’t wear the surface gets hot (the shedding of rubber cools the tire). The material under the surface starts to overheat and “boils” the compounds within tire?s entire composition. The materials separate, leaving a void or blister. If you look at that area the appearance is the same as a pumice rock. The holes are the areas were the gasses escaped. “
Mike hit this one dead on. As many recall the situation at MMP last year and the 1st big race at the Track, now the first (big race?) at IMI this year new surface, little rubber down. The solution was to heat cycle the tires. It worked (for us) at MMP it worked at the track and it worked at IMI. A 5 minute session at 50% is approx. all it took. Worked for practice tires on saturday and we used the 7 minute session Sunday morning to cycle them. Of course you can only tell your butthead driver like Keenan to go 50% ( he turned his only 51 on the first lap of morning warm up before he toned it down) and hope they listen because we have seen it work several times now.
Hope this was helpful or as usual maybe I am full of it. LOL
Craig