Why?

[Bill Baer]

Originally Posted by mattclow

Ever wonder why? I do. Like why do seat belts have expiry dates but tires don't? For such an important item, everyone wins.

Well I think it has something to do with the fact that except for the 300MPH top fuel classes tire failures are pretty rare in drag racing. When the last time you saw a tire failure at the track? It wasn’t that long ago that we ran English moped tires on top fuel dragsters and until speeds got high enough that they wouldn’t stay on the rim (Remember Shirley’s crash in Canada) I know a lot of guys who have been running the same front tires for more than ten years some of them regularly going over 200 MPH. So far ( again except of for the fuel classes) there just hasn’t been a tire problem.