Re: Jim Clark and (alfa content)

[Simon Favre <simon@domain.elided>]

A similar tale was told of Nuvolari. It was said he could tell you the
exact tire pressure on each tire at any point in the race. It was also
said he could favor any of the four tires if it was going away on him.

andres yver wrote:

>this is possibly apocryphal, but someone once told the story (maybe on the 
>bmw list) about how a tire company was doing tests at a track back in the 
>middle 60's, measuring wear and the like, and trying out subtle variations 
>in pressure and compounds, when they realized that one of the test pilots, 
>Jim Clark, consistently wore his tires EVENLY throughout the tests.
>Same wear on all four.

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