Watkins Glen

Spent Saturday at Watkins Glen for the vintage race weekend. The weather was perfect and the cars were many. I think about 500 vintage racers. I did find Paul Dudiak working on his F5000 McKee getting it ready for his late afternoon race. His was the only F5000 car there. Had a chance to talk to him about tires. Most everyone is using Avons and he mentioned that the F5000 series is considering mandating that all competitors in the series use ONLY Avon tires for 2011. I will be very disappointed if this ruling goes in effect for next year. Historically my car with the majority of all F5000 cars used Goodyears back in the day. Avon started to make race tires in 1985. Nine years after the F5000 series ended in the US. Plus a set of Avons cost more.