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Originally Posted by dp1
Why bother, that's nothing - you can pick up much more than that when tires are hot/sticky and you're running off line or coming into the pits where there are a lot of rubber chunks laying around. They should be gone pretty quickly from driving on street or track.
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I couldn't tell if it was my own rubber wearing strangely (toe issue possibly) or OPR. I've pretty much concluded the latter, but the thing that threw me is how evenly-coated the rubber is over my tire. It literally looks like another layer of rubber, except where it ends/crumbles towards the inside of the tire. When I picked at it, it started pulling off the top layer of rubber off the tire.
The rubber I'm used to picking up comes in clumps like the lighter grey patch at the top of this picture:
Or stones/rocks from the paddock like in Doc's picture. Or the black rubber strings that stick to my wheels. I've never seen (or perhaps never noticed) such an even distribution of OPR over my tire.