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From: Charles Ping - UK
Date: 17 Jan 2003
Time: 01:29:44
Remote Name: 194.205.4.1
Whist I'm cautious about disagreing with Barry he's wrong to suggest that 15inch wheels aren't allowed in the VSCC. They are currently OK and many fast racers use them. However they're to be outlawed from the end of 2003. This has caused much grumblimg in the saloon bar at my local Austin Seven club meeting (not by me I hasten to add, I hill climb on 18's). The academic question that I'd like to answered is whether 15 inch wheels with Firestone radials are safer for racing than 16 or 17inch wheels on probably narrower cross plies? Is it better to grip or slip?
Charles