Probably not. We've had our prep sail through the supposed "lab analysis" and there's nothing that we offer that isn't easily detected (even by your nose!)
What little bit would be picked up from the track will be negligible in the PPM sample they take. Not saying that it couldn't show up, but highly unlikely. You'd have to soak a tire pretty hard to get it to fail (that's sure been the case with big car tires.)
I know absolutely nothing about the series or it's promoters. I know the tracks and several racers in the area - some considering running this series. I've received dozens of calls about the tires already.
If they are serious about promoting the series to kart racers, then they need to get on board with some of the common safety rules of kart chassis ("quick release steering wheel on a flat kart highly recommended" is a scary though for a parents and insurance underwriters alike.)
Another thing they had better do as promoters, is get on here and answer questions in their threads. If Bob has to delete them, then there's obviously been a problem. I'm all for using social media and getting some free publicity, but throw the site owner a bone or two I'm thinking. Is keeping track of your started threads/posts and payin for what you are getting too much to ask a "promoter" of a high profile series?
Being that the tires are to be purchased through the series, etc, there's not much reason for other businesses to help support the deal (financial or technical) I am thinking. Rather than getting karting businesses to sponsor classes, etc, they are going about this in a very different fashion. Right or wrong, it'll be interesting to see how it is supported and how successful they can be with this business strategy.
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