jl..... re reading your post on here..... were you thinking that I was referring to tire spin?..... I was referring to the car spinning after the wide tires hydroplaned and caused the car to spin
I was referring to the narrow tires giving better traction, which theory we have completly blow into the pucker bushes.
This narrow tire is better BS, is also proven by other cars [in their videos] with 1/3 the power of the 222 car not able
to hook up.
Gail Banks showed us the way [and a lot of others should have got the message] in 1987 
JL222
And I was always curious to know exactly how much Gale's car really did weigh.... I do know that wide tires on rims that are on the narrow side of recommended width and LOTS of ballast(the latter-apparently VERY important) equals good traction
I don't know how much Bank's car weighed but our intercooler tank is similar at about 38 gal and our rims our 10''.
Still what is this hydroplaning your talking about?
One other point your advising others on '' a round profile shape'' this seems to be the opposite of any racing tire used on cars.
were the contact patch is the only thing propelling the car.
JL222
P.S. reread post #22 were you state the opposite.
Hydroplaning.... at the risk of sounding a tad patronizing in the preamble, I am saying this.... you California residents probably don't get a whole lot of chances to have heavily frozen lakes on which to drive in cold wether..... I somehow don't think you even get any amount of cold weather.... well, for those of us in other parts of the continent, where temperatures can get down to cold enough to make a body of water the size of Lake Mead freeze with ice that can be 2 feet or more thick, we get the chance to drive on iced lakes.... my first impression was how much it felt like being at Bonneville, actually.... now ice, at 20 below zero, has surprisingly good traction - not pavement quality traction but pretty good..... and you can get going pretty fast on a flat surface like that.... of curse, being that we were all guys cooped up in a construction camp for weeks on end, when we did get out and do stuff like this, inevitably, speed contests occur.... you can get cars and trucks going pretty fast on ice.... (ask the Swedes how fast they get up to).... well.... the people who had vehicles with narrower tires and heavier weight seemed to accelerate quicker than the performancy type cars with wider tires.... they seemed to be sliding around quite a bit more.... some time later though, there was a bit of a warm up.... the temperature got above freezing and there was noiceable moisture on the ice surface..... well, we wanted to keep having fun so we ended up doing a lot of swerving and spinning of our vehicles on the wet ice.... still....amongst the guys who wanted to still try to go fast the heavier vehicles with narrower tires had the advantage.
So, at Bonneville, there is a term that we often hear.... the track is getting a little loose..... after many runs, the surface of the salt has been worn off a little, leaving loose salt particles..... think about dust. dirt, sand or water on pavement and the salt particles are pretty much the same..... a layer of salt dust between your tires and the hard crystalline salt that you really want your tires to be hooking up into... spinning vehicles seems to be the phenomenon that occurs as a result of a loose track surface..... hydroplaning occurs as a result of riding on the salt particles rather than the hard salt base below the particles.... in the same manner as a car, when driven through a patch of water on pavement will lose traction ..... AND THIS HAS BEEN FIRMLY ESTABLISHED BY TIRE MANUFACTURERS, RESEARCHERS AND MANY WATCHDOG GROUPS
Now of course, it has been firmly established by others on this site that wide tires are not the culprit here ... like I say.... who am I to claim expertise in this matter?... I only know from my own experience....
