Hoosier Slicks & front tires

nhramnl · 06-15-2018, 07:51 AM

Almost forgot... Bigley made these comments in the past, on this very website, about radial wobble. The topic is situations where it is probably unwise to use radials.
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9. if your track's starting line is marginal at best, Again, radial slicks are not for you. Unlike bias slicks that will spin a couple of hundreds on a bad starting line, radials slicks spins TENTHS and don't recover.
11. radial slicks also have a history of doing something known as "radial wobble" where your car will rock side to side right after launching and it only gets worse as you continue down track to the point where you may have to lift. The reason for is touching down out of square meaning one tire hits the ground before the other after launching wheels up. Marginal track conditions will contribute as well and my experience is that it happens usually in the early and late season on cold tracks.

06-15-2018, 07:51 AM	#32
nhramnl Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Posts: 507 Likes: 8 Liked 358 Times in 83 Posts	Re: Hoosier Slicks & front tires Almost forgot... Bigley made these comments in the past, on this very website, about radial wobble. The topic is situations where it is probably unwise to use radials. ************************************************ ****** 9. if your track's starting line is marginal at best, Again, radial slicks are not for you. Unlike bias slicks that will spin a couple of hundreds on a bad starting line, radials slicks spins TENTHS and don't recover. 11. radial slicks also have a history of doing something known as "radial wobble" where your car will rock side to side right after launching and it only gets worse as you continue down track to the point where you may have to lift. The reason for is touching down out of square meaning one tire hits the ground before the other after launching wheels up. Marginal track conditions will contribute as well and my experience is that it happens usually in the early and late season on cold tracks.