[Philm]

HI Yve and Chris

I am not sure what you mean by slow QLD, I hope I haven't offended you.

The Tire issue was hard to get thru, and the committee spent many hours debating this issue over many months.

Firstly I would like to start by looking at the big picture, the nationals are our own event and it has evolved trying hard to meet the demands of the cobra owner. I see the King and Queen Cobra Competition as a contest for true road cars. Every year we see that boundary being pushed with cars becoming more race cars than street cars. (I am guilty of this)
We do welcome the "race" car but in the spirit of the event the King and Queen are for street cars only.

We looked at the Hoosier R6 specifically along with others and as per last years nationals all agreed that the tire is a true race tire.

The following 2 points from our regs classify this tire as open class only.

1. IT has "for competition use only" molded on the carcass
2. IT does not have a molded tread pattern from shoulder to shoulder.

I also rang the hooiser distributer in Australia and asked if the R6 are street legal and was told definitely no.

The regs we published have rules that we can, with our limited ability, police on the day. The simplest method we have is the "for competition use only" molded on the carcass.

Please appreciate that we do not run under CAMS.

However I do agree that 15inch tires are getting hard to get, we also discussed this at great length with the committee and several competitors that would be affected. As harsh as it sounds there is not much we could do.

I welcome this discussion as the event is for all members to enjoy and if there is something we need to fix we will.

Thanks

Phil