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Originally Posted by spenner
If people wanted to race on Tarmac as is suggested then they should have told Matt ( moto arena) and they could have run the winter series.
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What was suggested to Matt for Tuesdays was that the jumps should be covered in carpet and most of the corners left as tarmac so you have a good technical track but one that is easy on the tyres. By easy I mean that you could run all your old used stuff that you were going to bin. If you cover all the jumps basically you don't need the grip that you'd normally need on a carpet track because you are going straight at and over the jump. With good quality landing ramps (long) the cars will stay safe from damage caused by landing on the tarmac. As you know John from racing at places such as EPR, Kidderminster etc, tyre wear is greatest when they include the tarmac/concrete sections and you can't get away with worn tyres for long because of the grip needed on the other sections so if there is too much carpet on the corners at Moto Arena and we have to use a lot of new tyres on a Tuesday I think it will scare off a lot of average drivers because of the cost.
Sure, the tarmac is not the best thing we could run on but with enough jumps it should still be entertaining and "off road" enough to make for some good close racing. I'm sure that the Saturday Winter Series meetings will be excellent, especially when you're using the DMS carpet to cover it (if that info is correct).
I've been told that the Silverstone Model Car Club Massive will be laying the track for tonight so hopefully, with all their experience it should be much better than last week and maybe we'll get a few superstars turn up to up the pace a bit too
