Regarding your tire question, I suggest you contact Eric Pettersen @ tire_guy@sbcglobal.net .
He is in charge of tire tech. He frowns on tires that have been used at the track.
The course is not hard on the tire tread. After 90 miles at 150 my new tires still had the tits on the tread from when they were made.
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