Club Foams

[scotty]

Can anyone who purchased foams from the club on friday night give me their opinions on these tyres. I personally feel that they're Far Too Soft and this was proved on Friday night with them chunking on their first run. I feel that if we had went the 37 shore and 40 shore this wouldn't have happened. I've run V-TEC and GRP tyres all year and not had any problems with chunking. If we buy more in the future the shores will have to be different i think.

[John Lindsay]

I've not been running the ones the club bought but always found 37/35 with no real problems and found the performance to be better.

Rubber is the way ahead anyway :wink:

John

[scotty]

Yeah John seriously considering rubber at this moment in time...

[Malcolm Williams]

Can anyone who purchased foams from the club on friday night give me their opinions on these tyres. I personally feel that they're Far Too Soft and this was proved on Friday night with them chunking on their first run. I feel that if we had went the 37 shore and 40 shore this wouldn't have happened. I've run V-TEC and GRP tyres all year and not had any problems with chunking. If we buy more in the future the shores will have to be different i think.
I've run their 35 and 30s for a year and only had chunking on a couple of pairs in the early days when they were offered at a discount. the latest ones I have not had chunk at all yet, though admittedly I dont race at the top level speeds.

[Dave]

Yeah I think we should embrace rubber tyres just like the Carpet Champs and find what one works best and set a control tyre.

It will allow us to bulk buy and get a discount we can pass on to the racers.

[Bryan]

We allow rubber and foam at Dundee, i've tried both and foam is still the better choice for club racing i feel as there is no prep involved. With rubbers you really do need to run additives which is fine if you have plenty of time in between rounds.

Car setup is alot closer on rubber tyres to what you would run outdoors and on slippy floor and you do have less grip which is good and bad for drivers. On racing carpet foams will always be faster but the carpet were running on just now has alot of drag so rubbers are actually faster as than the foams :( Just my 2p.