2022 Moto America Daytona 200 provisional tech regs..

Shinkos for the win...

 

Yep and I heard they have secret Q tires too!

 

This is what the provisional rules say;
2.3.8 Use of tires
a. The competitors shall only use tires listed on the allocation sheet provided by the official supplier.
b. For each event, all tires must be made of the same quality and shall be strictly identical.

Both of these rules would indicate that there will be an official supplier and that all tires from that brand will be to spec.

 

Interesting... this sure reads like it will be Dunlop

 

https://www.daytonainternationalspe...ay-and-motoamerica-team-for-2022-daytona-200/

 

These tires rules prevent a supplier from making custom or one-off tires for a limited number of competitors. Every brand must make their approved tires available to all competitors that want to run that brand. All championships with open tire rules that I have seen have something similar.

 

It doesn't look like that to me since we already know Daytona has mandated the 200 to be an open tire race. But it sure seems that meeting these requirements for Michelin, BStone, Shinko, Conti, or whoever will be difficult unless they bring in factory engineers/techs to manage the event.

Secondly does the "allocation will be done on a random basis" mean that MA will have staff in each tire garage to pull tires from the stack? Yikes, they are going to need a bunch of extra staff to do this as the rule is written.

 

Yes, if you mean tires designed for the demands of the Daytona race track.

 

About a zillion years ago I was at Daytona and NASB Sportbike qualifying was going on. Dave McGrath put on a 501 rear for qualifying and it lasted 2 laps before it chunked.

 

They've got some good dirt bike tires, their gummy tire has lots of grip.

 

What use to be the % when CCS did the D200 ?

Any other major changes from what it was ?
Don't really know since my bike has been legal in both organisations... and up here in CSBK.

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CCS rules differences: Cutoff was 110%. But it was also a higher number of riders, I want to say in the 80's in some sessions. There was no pit lane speed limit, and you could not touch the bike when fueling was going on. You also could change tires on a red flag which means you could potentially avoid green flag tire changes.

 

Right. You still had to do a stop (or at least enter the pits) under green flag conditions, though. You couldn't go the whole race pitting only under red flags. It was a good rule, I thought.

 

Barrett Long ran a Dunlop 2662 rear for 2 laps on his 848. It was chunked after that. Maybe 4 years ago?

 

i wouldn't expect a 2662 front slick to last more than a couple of laps on the rear...

 

There used to be a 2662 rear compound. Then they renamed it 097 I believe? I brain dumped all the old numbers!

 

Get off your high horse and YOU think about it. Never seen a bent wheel still holding air?

 

Yeah, here's me looking down from my ivory tower at someone on a 600 who made a conscious decision to ride around Daytona on a bent rim to try and salvage a 48th place finish.

 

lmfaoooooo

Dude I just spit coffee all over my keyboard.

Hey man, 48th, what it pay?

 

on 600's ?? .. you betcha. 2-4 laps could be no issue in some circumstances.