Ardent Raceway and HPI 24hr Le Mans RC challenge!!

[mcreeder]

Not seen the pro compound X patterns. Where have you seen them?

Anyway, there is nothing wrong with running lower grip tyres. Its the same for everyone. I would have thought that now we are on the kit tyres that the 'wet' running idea will be scrapped. I get the impression it was just an idea to get some use from the kit tyres.

[MRD]

Originally Posted by mcreeder

Not seen the pro compound X patterns. Where have you seen them?

http://www.hpiracing.com/hpitires/touring/

About halfway down the page, there's pro compound in belted/none belted and in narrow too cost more tho.

[mcreeder]

Found the Pro compound with a bit of searching. Looks like they were discontinued, I am pretty sure its only the D compound that are available

[Dez82]

Originally Posted by lotussmart

Dez, I think today was slippy due to all the foams and additive being put down by the Mardaves, F1s, and GTs. Tuesday they were fine, but I agree today was slippy.

Lol, there's low grip, and no grip, today was dead bad on kit tyres, maybe once we get going the track will scrub up because we won't be soaking the track in additive like all the foam shod cars do, fingers crossed!

We could always spray the track with Coca Cola and let it dry

[MRD]

The UK Hpi site is more upto date and there arn't any pro comp tyres listed at all . It would be nice to use HPI tyres if we could but maybe some 32s slicks would be better. I don't fancy sliding the car round for 2000+ laps.

[mcreeder]

It only feels bad cos you are all used to lots of grip. We used to run Tamiya TT01 kit radials in the old Tamiya Eurocup, and they are worse than the X pattern D compound. Everyone will soon get used to the grip, and lower grip actually makes for closer racing.

[Dez82]

Trust me this thing wriggles enough to keep you awake for 24Hrs that's for sure! Well we'll all be qualified pro drifters by the end of it!

My only concern is that one team will figure out a geometry set up or tyre tweak that works and romp away. We all want a close race.

[mcreeder]

I ran the Sprint 2 911 with the flux brushless on those X pattern tyres at Yateley last year. Yes it was slippy, and Yateley is not the most grippy track either, but you just had to adjust how you drove it. I actually went quicker with my touring car there for the rest of the day as well, as the Sprint and X patterns magnified the mistakes I was making and getting away with on Sorex, showing me where I could make up time.

I think the X pattern tyres will make for a more exciting 24hr race than running with what would be too much grip on a 32 race tyre.

[Ben Cosgrove]

Originally Posted by Dez82

We could always spray the track with Coca Cola and let it dry

Only if we want to see you on all 4's licking the track

[lotussmart]

Originally Posted by Dez82

Lol, there's low grip, and no grip, today was dead bad on kit tyres, maybe once we get going the track will scrub up because we won't be soaking the track in additive like all the foam shod cars do, fingers crossed!

We could always spray the track with Coca Cola and let it dry

How old were your tyres? :-) the new ones in the kit were spot on for me Dez, same laptimes as Sorex 32s.

[Dez82]

My tyres on my Sprint 2 were fine John, felt the same as the ones on your car, my set are not old, Callums set on his Sprint 2 are a little older granted but have had no use and been stored well wrapped up and sealed. I'll get a new set to try for next Fridays Team Chand-a-Cola set up and test at Ardent (April 15th - see you there with the confirmed guys and those under going trials!)

The kit tyres felt fine in the first test in the morning but as the day went on they got worse, and worse, the track getting additive all day ruined the grip, so I switched to some very old 32's and after three laps they were perfectly drivable.

[lotussmart]

I did 60+ minutes on them Tuesday without the masses of additive going down and they were perfectly fine all evening. Feel free to test with them but I am very happy with them from all perspectives, cost, longevity, availability and performance and it's the same for everyone :-). See you Friday Dez, looking forward to the Chand a Cola team trials. Amazing how series you are taking this, it's awesome!! and it's going to be even better when we beat you :-)

[jasonb]

Originally Posted by lotussmart

See you Friday Dez, looking forward to the Chand a Cola team trials. Amazing how series you are taking this, it's awesome!! and it's going to be even better when we beat you :-)

If you beat them with a Pepsi body shell it would be the ultimate insult

Jason

[Dez82]

Yes John, I take my fun very seriously
"If a job is worth doing..." etc. I always give 110% to everything I do.

Hold the P@psi paint job Jason, I might have to change my team name to "Old Spice" at this rate, same red/white/black colour scheme, but a much higher average driver age than expect

We'll see how trials go Friday 15th, most of my team can make it, just a couple of potential team members to confirm. First to break a rear hub carrier gets the boot! No pressure.....

[mcreeder]

Originally Posted by lotussmart

...I am very happy with them from all perspectives, cost, longevity, availability and performance and it's the same for everyone :-)....

I totally agree John. They are not a bad tyre at all. Its the same for everyone and they will sort out the good drivers, from the drivers who are normally flattered by tyres that give out too much grip.

[KRob]

John,
Just pick a tyre that will be reliable and cheap.
I would much prefer to see everyone using the same wheel too, surely that would make things alot easier. As long as the glueing is good then it shouldn't be an issue.

And if Dez want to run white wheels then sell him some paint

[Dez82]

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!!

[hashiriya]

So you are saying that the track will be green and then scrub in as the meeeting goes on? that sounds perfect

[Dez82]

Well it sounds like it could happen that way, but the down side of getting the tyres to work a bit better is that the motor and ESC ran a lot hotter because we had a little extra grip to be able to stress it slightly more.

[lotussmart]

We have one more team slot available!!!!!!! Unfortunately Team Richards has had to pull out.