How to Choose Sprint Car Tires

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Summary: Learn how to choose appropriate sprint car tires for speed and safety in this free racing video.

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Samantha Taylor has been around cars all of her life, her father put her in a car when she was just 3 years old and was racing by the time she was 5. She Attended the Jimmy Sills...read more

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"In this clips we're gong to talk about tires. There's four different tires on this car. They're all different sizes. They just keep stager in the car so that the right side of the cars tire are bigger than the left side. You can use different compounds of tires, so softer tires for dry safe track and harder tires for wet track. They vary depending on track conditions, makes your decision on what compound you?re going to run. You can run different wheel sizes. These are the wheel sizes. You can go smaller so your tire is fatter, longer tire or you can go fatter wheel size so you don't have as much distance in between the top and bottom of the tire. You always want to have between 10 to 15, 16 inches of stager depending on where you?re at. Stager is the difference between right rear and the left rear."

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