Well some good news. I scrubbed my year old X Pattern (D Compound) tyres clean of all the rubber and goop they picked up last weekend, just used a drill to spin them on sandpaper, no additive nothing, just scrubbed, and we ran a test at Leamington DDMC before the regular Wednesday night club meeting tonight, they have a dry clean carpet, and the HPI kit tyres ran for 20 minutes right off, very drivable and predictable, a bit drifty style but great fun, so these tyres aren't the problem, it must have been all the foam tyre additive at Ardent after a very busy Winter series.
Hopefully before the
24Hr D'Ardent there will be lots of touring car racing to scrub the track up for us, it'll certainly be well scrubbed by the time we leave! I can imagine a clean racing line developing with the off line areas remaining slippery-er (?) so passing someone who won't move off line might be interesting, just like the real thing!!
