Tires bolted to your roof! (Page 1 of 2)

might I suggest rather then adding tires, have an escalating scale of tire size.... get some used farm tractor tires..... by the time you get to the 3rd offence the car will roll onto its side turning onto pit lane ;-)

I liked that the BMW had the antler bolted to the tyre. That was brilliant.

the way some of those things were mounted - swaying all around, i was waiting for them to start flying off

we got one for passing under yellow. I got black flagged in the middle of the night and figured that I had probably missed a yellow due to the ease of passes I had just made. After having seen the ever increasing amount of tires on roofs, I radioed in to get a tire ready. Sure enough, we got another tire penalty, so we had it on and back out on track in about 3 minutes. Meanwhile the SCCA guy in the yellow car next to us kept bitchin to Judge Johnny about how unfair his penalty was

I think it looks good, we're gonna leave these on for next year.

Some teams got their tires bolted down very quickly, while others are probably still working on it today. We really like this penalty, so be ready for it!

It was a pretty funny penalty. It doesn't take much time to accomplish and it is pretty comical. It's almost better than the Arc Angel penalty in my opinion. 

Most teams got wise and prepped a tire. We spotted our neighbors some hardware after they spotted us a drill when ours was dead.

I dunno, the humping bunnies is still pretty damn funny

So what happens when one of those tires comes off and lands in someone's windshield? Who gets the black flag?

What? You use a mesh??

The previous track manager John McGill decided to try tire wall as an effective barrier for the track back in the day, early 70's. It was a lot less expensive than Armco.
The close proximity of Akron, when they actually made tires there, gave a steady supply.

30 years of impacts and hurried , er, restacking, has made them look a little unkempt.

The reality though was that the tires absorbed impact quite effectively and it became apparent that it beat concrete and steel as a barrier. The number of cars which were buried in the tires and lived to run another day became obvious.

I do not recall the exact year but John McGill received an FIA racing safety award in the 70's for "inventing" the tire wall.

True Story.

Somehow it is appropriate, and very funny, that the tire bolted to roof penalty started at Nelson Ledges.

Don't ever lose the Arc Angel though.

+1 and I would further add that you should mandate that hardware be provided by a different team - in order to build up some mingling!