Journal
Working notes
Things we can only write because they are ours: what is on our drawings, what we got wrong, and what running a consumable business actually costs. No general tire advice.. there is plenty of that elsewhere and most of it is a rewrite of the same page.
- 4 min
Stop pricing tires per tire
A drift driver goes through 30 to 40 tires in a competition weekend. That one fact changes what a discount is worth and what availability is worth.
- 4 min
Why we made two compounds instead of one good one
A single compound has to be adequate everywhere and excellent nowhere. Splitting practice from competition is an economic argument first.
- 3 min
A number without its conditions is not a specification
Section width depends on the rim. Hardness depends on temperature. Most published tire figures leave that out, which is how they end up meaningless.