Originally Posted by Kregger (Post 16089004)

Good lord what the heck is that thing? I could live with the foam tires if I had to, until I had to true them.

Originally Posted by tommy911t (Post 16089129)

Here in Pdx we ran a successfull "UF1 like" series when there was an indoor carpet. I still have my home made pit light system <3
Ive taught myself to enjoy any oppertunity to make these tires squell outdoors.
Having two kiddos to bash with is my ace in the hole since we're garanteed a class if we can make it to a track. Lol
Cheers to all keepin the F1 flame going!
-Tommy

Originally Posted by Dan (Post 16088956)

I pulled it from here since I was curious. Unique drivers it seems.

https://ets.redrc.net/standings/

I do recall from a number of sources in 2021 that many were not happy with the change to foam due to rubber tire raw material shortages. The pandemic definitely impacted RC turnout for sure in 2020-2022 so it will always skew data. Honestly, I think F1 is just slowly fading out and chassis updates even from Xray are less frequent over the past few years. It is even reflected at the big indoor races in the US, coinciding with the explosion of GT12. (slower and closer racing)

Very unlikely making foam mainstream will bring the class back, it might accelerate the death. One of my local tracks does race foam F1 and I do run it, but there is a noticeable speed difference when the foam tires get thinner. Just like 1/12 scale, we'll see guys truing them down to get faster.

With that said, do what works for your club, foam or rubber.

Originally Posted by LordSchnert (Post 16089905)

For those of you racing F1 outdoors, do you run in the rain? if so, what tires would you use?

Originally Posted by robk (Post 16089971)

Originally TCS races were on foams for the narrow F104 style cars. It was fine but there certainly was a tire size that worked best. That definitely was not a full sized tire.

We still race 21.5 on foams with the older style wide cars( think F103) and they are rockets. Going to foam is going to be faster, everything else being the same. The setup window may be wider but there are negatives that have been brought up like chunking tires, truing, maintaining ride height and roll out, etc., etc.

Originally Posted by DMS1 (Post 16089927)

One more thing, Dan told me the foam tires they run in ets are Matrix brand and as of a couple weeks ago amain started carrying them. I ordered a couple sets for myself but Dan lent me a set yesterday to test and they were great. Not sure on durability but new out of the package they handle really well.