All,
We tried running an offroad heat at our indoor touring car meetings up her at GRCC (Aberdeenshire) last year. We used foams on the buggies so had no issues with spiked tyres. But what we did find is that it was very easy to put holes in the carpet when we rolled the cars, especially off our small jumps. This happened twice in the same race and immediately put the TC drivers against us. We tried covering the shock towers in balls of tape which did help ease their fears, but even these came off sometimes. We did think about putting down another layer of carpet in the jump landing areas, but it was pointed out that the cars can (and do) roll over anywhere on the track. It would also be a hassle to lay out everything before the offroad heat and then remove it again after, as time between heats was minimal. So alas, our test failed.
Anyway, I'm not saying you guys wont get the idea to work, I'm just sharing our experience. Its always great fun to have both formats at the same meeting as we have done a couple of times at Stonehaven (on two different tracks granted)
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