tks:nod: wing is the tamiya light weight racing wing set #54457 type A .

My P- Zero body is still hanging in there.https://cimg7.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rct...0c52be8ef.jpeg

Still going strong.

So the J zero feels almost the same as my tamiya lite wt. NSX. very nimble and kinda neutral feel . I like it. Nice to have another body option;) Got lots of complements:D

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Living at 7,000 feet means we have a short racing season in Flagstaff, Arizona. It was 7 months til we had our first practice race last weekend. Our Summer Point Series starts in June, so I'm just doing some painting. McAllister Racing C5 Corvette and MX-Stang.....Time to get racing!!!https://cimg6.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.rct...3651667546.jpg
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That would be the Tamiya racing type A wing.

Most races I've attended have a spec TC tire... so imo I dont think it's a big difference

USGT is meant to be a fun easy class but being on a spec tire(non belted and hard compound), chassis tuning is a bit more critical to extract pace out of these tires. 21.5 is very fast now a days and I find USGT laps times about .4-.6 seconds slower than 17.5 blinky . Changing compounds isn't an option but will allow you to tune your chassis to make pace and try to make it to the front of the field. Takes some time depending on tuning abilities but persistence can pay off.

USGT is still fun for me, but yes, quite a bit faster than 5 years ago when I first ran it. The 21.5 motors these days are fassssst!

VTA is an enjoyable speed right now, I thought it was too slow ~6 years ago.

I think USGT with a spec motor is what you are looking for. The Reedy or HW FT motors look nice for that and are a definite step down in performance from the modern crop of motors.

I'm fine with the current rule set. I just stopped running 17.5 sedan for a while since it got way too fast for me.

Honestly, doing 25.5 touring car and USGT, 25.5 TC is almost as fast.. like within 5%... but, the USGT car frustratingly "wanders off" and "becomes tippy" for me with tire age as they balloon up. I've been very frustrated with it on black carpet, but I've got it down now, and unfortunately, my view is USGT is actually harder than 25.5 TC class, and I have to do very little to my TC other than sauce the tires and put it on the track. With USGT, I've got my starting setup, and now a setup I slowly migrate to as the tires age and the car starts to tip, and no amount of CA glue on the sidewalls helps. It's a shit tire, and the motors got super fast, and that's why people have been doing 25.5 TC at my track.

I run both. At our track, in 21.5 and 25.5 TC, we all run the same tire, so we effectively have a spec tire, the motors are now governed by minimum resistance, so now USGT is actually more work. VTA is no more here, essentially replaced by traxxas 4-tec racing.

IMHO, USGT should pick a new spec tire. I haven't yet received a set of premount tires that didn't have at least one wheel with a +/- 1 degree camber wobble, and when I grab some throttle with the car in my hand, the body sounds like it's going to tear itself apart from the vibrations. The 4-tec 2.0 traxxas cars have better premount tire consistency and run-out. It's actually kinda sad.

Wayne

Tires are fine, motors just got too fast and now overwhelm them on the near black carpet. If you went back to a Novak 21.5 with current tires on great carpet, everything would seem fine again. We are our own worst enemy in search of performance and ruin it for ourselves.