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Post by Deleted on Nov 24, 2007 9:57:05 GMT -7
:)Just wanted to say hi. Iam new to the forum, Just bought the(Maxtrack) drag strip (out of Florida) that was listed in most of the talk boards. Iam located in Washington state and am looking forward to building this drag strip and racing with my HO racing group here locally. This will be the groups first drag strip, we currently run on six HO tracks. To start out with, just to get a feel of drag racing, we will run the current classes and rules we have for our road racing. Now for a couple questions. I bought a bunch of Polymer magnets for the T-jets and Mag-Trac cars for the group( as this will be our first classes of modifying cars, not counting the Fray cars we currently run). What is the best kind tire to run A.K.A silicon/sponge, slip-on. On tracks like Maxtracks that are smooth, what size of tire are people running ( my friend has a Brad Bowman track that is ultra smooth and put together my first Polly MT car and put 426 rear tire on it and that was still to low, the magnets sucked it to the rails and the tires are still off the track a very slight bit). Last but not least, how do you run your programs? Is it like 1:1 drags, you qualify and if you have 12 then fastest qualifier races #12 and 2 races 11 or do you have a different program. Thanks in advance for all the help and look forward to the new people I will meet on the board, Stan.
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Post by SKR on Nov 24, 2007 11:29:50 GMT -7
Welcome to the forum Stan! Sounds like you guys have a great group. Great to hear another track is going up. I run both slip on and silicone/sponge tires. I have found that the silicone/sponge's hook up better and require wheelie bars to keep the front end down on some. We do run our heads up clases like 1/1 racing. As you mentioned pairing up 1/12 * 2/11 and so on. Sorry I can't help you with the tire sizes. Maybe one of the guys here that run on a similar track can help out. Sam
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2007 7:41:09 GMT -7
Thanks for some info Sam, When you run bracket races, how do you determine who races who? If you are running slip-on tires, doesn't that make it hard to dial in.
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Post by SKR on Nov 27, 2007 12:14:55 GMT -7
When we run brackets, we've been letting each racer do the pairing. One week I'll do it the next week someone else will do it and so on. You can pair them up by drawing numbers also. Pull two numbers out of a box and pair the two racers that signed up in that position. The only draw back I see with this is that you might have to run yourself in the first round, guess that could be a good thing also, at least you have one into the second round. Of course if your a dolt and think everyone's out to get you, then doing it our way is a conspiracy . Long story on that remark.... Our track has a loser's bracket after the first round. Everyone who lost in the first round has the oppurtunity to run their car or cars in a seperate race to try and get back into the second round. Winner bumps up. I've found that on the faster cars that silicone foamies are more consistant. The slip ons are molded tires that just aren't as true as silicone foamies. The sf's are softer which also grip better. How's your track coming along? Sam
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