Back To Rubber - Results

 Today I got the chance to do a few repairs and run a short race with the NSR and Thunderslot cars. I ran the 10-lap quick race scenario after doing a little tuning to the rubber tires. Here's the results;

Laps: 10

Car                           Time               Lap         

Tergal 908               1:01.57             6.1          

Rothmans 917         0:58.40             5.84          

Gulf 917                  0:58.81             5.88       

Lucky Strike 917    1:02.10             6.2

Elva                         0:56.80            5.68 

Sunoco 908             0:58.92             5.89

Lola                         0:56.09            5.61

This is exactly what I was thinking was going to happen. I had a chance to run most of the NSR cars on their factory rubber and was really impressed by it. It's soft, almost too soft, but incredibly grippy and quiet. The Ortmann urethane isn't as soft, isn't as grippy and is considerably louder than the rubber. 

Competitively speaking, this is a much better result if I don't want to have a standout car. And since the rubbers will be staying on, I can start looking at other stuff on each car. There's only a few tenths difference between all these cars, so I'm feeling good about them racing together. I'm thinking of chasing down some rubber for the Slot.it cars. There are quite a few different formula tires that I could look for, and I'm thinking of doing that. Might even go with NSR rubber. We'll have to see.