To go back to the title of this page.
When we started our non studded class, many were running Nolians until the cars on Blizzaks were regularly beating them. The Blizzaks seemed to have better grip on the polished ice late in the race.
To go back to the title of this page.
When we started our non studded class, many were running Nolians until the cars on Blizzaks were regularly beating them. The Blizzaks seemed to have better grip on the polished ice late in the race.
Looking out my window, spring is not far.
Time to take the snows off.
Almost.
I should've mentioned in WI the studded cars are all season tires with 1.25" long 1/4" diameter bolts through the tires, sharpened to a point with a snow mobile stud sharpener.
they get mixed throughout the snow tire cars so the ice never gets that glass smooth polish that I've encountered when ice racing in michigan happens.
Our modified cars run similar tires. The use Kold Kutter studs.
This polished ice thing was always a mystery to me but many others reported it.
Hence I won three races on a last turn pass.
In reply to iceracer:
Actually, the polished ice thing makes perfect sense to me, especially if you're able to make passes on blizzaks late in races against those on hakkas. I praised the hakkas for their stiffer sidewall, on polished ice the better transitional response just means more likely to slide and wash out (understeer or oversteer depending on pedal input and whether before of after the apex) where as the blizzaks softer, slightly delayed transition response will allow for a slower, smooth input of steering forces and not causes as much negative effect due to the isolation.
Well, that explains that.
Only thing is that most of the others were on Blizzaks too.
In reply to iceracer:
They're just over driving the corner then 
Nope, they slowed down in fear of the dreaded polished ice. I passed on the outside.
In reply to iceracer:
kudos to you for using where they should've been on entry and shame on them for peddling and fearing the surface they're running on (not real shame, but you have to test it in the controlled eniveriment with a low coefficient of grip makes for little risk and high reward in terms of learning vehicle dynamics).
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