The new Hoosier Vintage FF tire arrives
Well, I was surprised to arrive home this afternoon and find my set of new Hoosier Vintage FF tires waiting. This will give me time to scrub them in and do some testing ahead of the "Wild Hare" vintage races at VIR the first of April. I have to thank my friend and Hoosier dealer Tom Reichel for getting these to me so soon. They must be from the first production run. I'll let you know my impressions this weekend.
Hoosier is in PLAY, go get a set
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Originally Posted by
scorp997
Thanks, looking forward to the feedback. My first race is April 30th so I may have to decide prior to your running in order to get tires in time.
John - The Formula Ford Challenge Series is running them in early April, plus we have feedback from the testing that occured over the past 9 months. They will perform very similar to the AVON. The comparison to Dunlop proved to be difficult as there were no new ones to bring to the table.
Hoosier has done an excellent job to fill the gap Dunlop has created. I anticipate that by 2017 Monoposto will get its act together and then I think a lot of clubs will naturally fall in-line.
Happy to answer any questions, as all of us on the committee have a direct line to Hoosier on this topic.
--- Christopher Shoemaker
Royale Racing, LLC
Hoosier VFF vs Hoosier R25B slicks
Ok, I ran the new Hoosier VFF at the Wild Hare VDCA race at VIR and although I was totally geared wrong, still ran the third quickest of the 8 pre'72 FF1600s at 2:16.14. These were new tires and seemed to improve over the weekend. Just for comparison, I also ran a time trial event last weekend (4/23/2016) at the 2 mile NCCAR track, running the VFF Hoosiers in the morning session and the Hoosier R25B slicks in the afternoon session. The VFF tires had a best lap of 94.351 vs a best lap of 88.778 for the R25B slicks.