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Originally Posted by /tobys
How about introducing a price limit on the control tyres?
Schumacher and Ballistics are £8 a pair (rears) whilst the new Fastrax at £6. I know that is not a massive difference but it all helps over the course of the season.
Tyres alway has and always will be one of the biggest costs of racing competitively - it's a fact of life.
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That is a diffiuclt thing to arrange.
Only way that could work is if you bought your tires for nationals at the same time as entering the event and the BRCA reps negotiating a "bulk buy discount" with the suppliers.
Problems with that are;
1) Would make pre-paid entry expensive (each event being £10+ say £40 for 2 sets of discounted tires = £50 a day .. £100 a weekend = £600 to find at entry time in January when we are all skint from Xmas!).
2) Somebody running the nationals would have to transport and hand out nearly 1000 sets of tires per weekend ... that would be a pain for them if they drive anything much smaller than a big estate car (120 drivers, 2 sets of each of the 2 nominated tires per driver per day + a few spares to cover the ineveitable issues is easily 1000 tires a weekend!)
3) Said BRCA guy would have to store 6000 sets at the start of the year or rely on the suppliers always having stock on a "just in time" basis ... not sure any of them would sign up for that!!!
Without pre-payment it would be an unacceptable hit on the BRCA sections bank balance ... just think how much they would loose if they bought all those yellows (for example) out of their funds and EVERY event was wet needing greens!
+ probably dozens of other valid problems I've not thought of probably involving the finacial side of thing.
Unfortunately nobody is getting rich from being in this industry so I doubt you would get much of a discount anyway.