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Old 15-03-2012
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Hmm, well I read all these comments about rear motor being better on low grip, and I'm not so sure! At our club we run on a very very low grip dirt track,so I broke my trusty old B4 out,and after many set up changes I still couldn't keep up with the mid cars,so pulled the mid car out, with a grass set up on it, changed to the dirt tyres we run and was instantly right up with the other mid cars I was unable to stay with before.
Now the one and only place the B4 was a little quicker was the fast open corners, and the same could be said of the losi rear motor cars, but as soon as it came to the infield the turn in was better,I was able to get the power down mutch better without the back end wanting to step out all over the place, and the mid motor was far better under breaking, all in all it was streakes ahead of the rear motor.
now bear in mind I'm not running the longer chassis, but that 8mm would need to make one hell of a diffrence.
But the thing is, from what I have read most US tracks are not low grip, they run quite a good grip level, and then they blue groove and the grip comes right up, I think the rear motor works best on fast clay tracks were flow and speed trough the corners is important.
As for rear motor on low grip loose dirt.....Hmmmm not so sure
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