The racer’s sheet is much more complex to record all critical information, but feel free to take a look at that. The more information you have, the easier things become. The entire rationale with the racer’s sheet is to ensure that you turn up at the track event with nothing to do but check cold tire pressures. Bear in mind that if you ride slower than your fastest time on an “off” weekend, don’t go backwards with set up to compensate.

When dealing with tires specifically, it is absolutely critical to manage tire pressure to avoid hot or cold tearing the tire and effectively destroying the tire in 20 minutes. The rule of thumb is a cold to hot pressure gain of 5-7 pounds. Anything less, there is too much air in the tire and anything more is too little air pressure. Ambient air and track temperatures are factors you must manage as are tire compounds and carcasses. That’s why you stick with a brand, size and compound for a full season.

Tire testing is best done in the off season, so that you can manipulate the geometry and hydraulics accordingly to give the brand and compound a fair chance. It takes a lot of time to alter chassis and settings, so plan on only testing 2 brands per day if possible.

If you want an exclusive testing session, we can be booked for an entire day or days, and that will make the testing far more effective with accurate qualitative information.