alternative tires to mini pin?

[Dave Dodd]

As title, after some suggestions for alternative tires that don't pull at the pile in the carpet?

Foams
Venoms
Panther slicks
nanobytes
Spikes

Any helpful suggestions.

Cheers

[adey]

Try the venom 88 tyres in white compound with a hard insert. Marstons control tyre and they work great and last forever Dave. I made the decision for them too be a control tyre there.

[Dave Dodd]

Yeah a few of us have been using the venoms with slower motors and they are fun but not catching on.

I've tried foams too which can easily keep up, possibly out do pins (with the right driver lol) unfortunately not readily available.

How did your entries go when you made the change?

[cunawarit]

It also could be surface dependant, at WBMCC the white Venoms only start to grip half decently after a fair few heats. At other tracks with more grippy and perhaps newer carpet they may start gripping much earlier.

Chicken and egg situation, allegedly the mini pins make the Venoms grip less. People don't want to migrate to Venoms whilst there's no grip, but there will be no grip with Venoms whilst people still use mini pins.

PS: And yes, Venoms are a whole lot of fun at WBMCC with 13.5T motors.

[mattr]

We use VBC SE slicks over here, but with additive. As we have to share the carpet with the TC guys.

[cunawarit]

I use Venoms work better with additive too, at least at WBMCC.