This is an awesome tire.
Drag racers have been confounding physicists since the 1950's.
It's an amazement to me that the thread got to 4 pages without someone pointing out the obvious. Here's a Frank Curtis roadster with 19" Chrysler wire wheels:
MG roadsters used 19" wheels. Moon makes disks from 10" to 46". The Radir 12-spoke spindle mount wheel is 18x3"—bummer.