Malo has the new Goodyears and they are suited for 600. Practicality, reliability, dependability, affordability,repeat ability and especially DRIVABILITY are necessary qualities of a successful LSR effort. You need to build an actual race car and gather first hand info and then apply what you learn to this pipe dream and then someone may take it seriously.
racergeo...this design is conceptual at it's core. Whether you or anyone else takes it seriously is not my concern. I posed these ideas in order to get feedback so that I might learn things about the sport, the cars that race successfully, and the experienced people who build and drive them. I've received quite a lot both pro and con while offering up ideas that by their very nature do not represent the status quo. I agree the factors that make a successful LSR effort are much as you stated. However, you failed to mention the importance of creativity in both design and execution of ideas that set one great car, team, effort apart from another.
Where does that extra ounce of speed come from that breaks old records and sets the bar a little bit higher for the next attempt? How do we know what's practical, reliable, dependable, affordable, repeatable, and driveable unless we think beyond the status quo and look for new or different ways to move the needle higher? Different does not necessarily mean wrong. It may prove to not work but how will we know unless we conceive new methods, materials and processes to be tried and judged in attempts to find a better path forward?
There's not one single idea I've proposed that can not be reasonably adapted for testing to learn if it might meet the criteria you defined for a successful LSR effort. Until and unless an idea proves to be faulty, naysayer misgivings you and others have voiced are no more valid or meaningful than my conceptual notions that they may actually work as intended. I'm more than willing for any or all of my ideas to be proven wrong. That's because I know chasing LSR records successfully will require forward thinking beyond what has worked successfully in the past. I do appreciate everyone's input on whatever level you care to contribute. Just be certain your bah-humbug attitudes don't define how you want the world see you...because they will if you're not careful. Thanks... Terry.