Change of control tire for final 2 rounds
As the summer approaches, It brings us closer to our next ETS event round 5 which will be held at the beautiful Apeldoorn race track in the Netherlands. This track is one of the nicest facilities in Europe and has a tremendous club who will work with us to give all of you a fantastic event and the experience you expect from the ETS team.
As we move toward our next event we need to let all of you know of some changes we have had to make for the final 2 events. As everyone is well aware of, on March 11th a tragic earthquake and tsunami struck Japan causing a huge loss of life and tragedy for families and business throughout Japan and the world. As our hearts go out to all of them as they try to rebuild their lives and businesses, we have to continue to move forward in life and hope that something like this will never happen again.
As we do work to move forward, this tragedy has touched the ETS team in the area of our tires we were planning on using for the final 2 ETS events. As a result of the earthquake, 2 of the factories operated by a large supplier of the chemicals used in the tire process are down. One factory is located right near the nuclear plant in Fukushima and the other is located within the 20km zone surrounding the nuclear plant. Orders to these factories have now been redirected to other suppliers however they have not been able to keep up with demand. Due to this problem, the ETS team has had to be proactive and search for a high quality tire that will give the racers the high quality of event you have come to expect with an ETS race. Uwe, Marc and Toni along with other racers from the Apeldoorn area tested some tires recently and we have found a very good replacement to the Sorex. For the final 2 ETS events, we will be using the Ride TR tire. The testing the guys did shows these tires produce great lap times, consistent wear and very similar performance to the Sorex tire.
We are confident that these tires will work perfectly for our events and want you all to know that these tires are really good. We are sorry to have to make this change but if we did not react now, the chance of not having tires for the race would be almost 100%.
