Consider it a crazy Sunday morning idea, but I've never heard of people chalking their tires and going for a drive around town to see how they might get better grip with the conditions they see every day. There are about 4 turns I take at great speed daily, so if I could tune the car to optimal grip on those, then I could improve my line and speed, which over the years, has gotten better.

Would too many surface imperfections thrown off the reading by compressing the tires in a straight line? I've only seen people do this at autoXs, but for the street, the theory is sound.

I know some of you are students, so chalk should be readily available. I'm thinking I am going to have to go buy a whole box of the stuff, not like it's expensive or anything.

 

Why would someone do it for street purpose? Is it some ricer thing or some hip young kid thing to do? Condition on a track vs street is two different things. I don't know about where you live or what but maybe your area the streets are crazy turns at every turn or something.

~Robert

 

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