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Old 01-21-2010, 06:26 AM
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Last night I had a problem with my rear tires collecting carpet. Of course once they do this, they have no bite. The car works pretty good for the first few minutes and then my handling goes away completely.

I have an M03-M. I am running s-grips in the front and kit tires in the rear. These are fairly new tires, about 3 weeks of racing use. I use "jack the gripper" traction compound. This setup was working good two weeks ago.

I even tried running one heat race with no traction compound on the rear tires and they still had carpet stuck to them when it came off the track.

I cleaned the tires with motor spray before the evenings events, and once more between rounds. Any suggestions?
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