I thought he had too much brakes as well but it's hard to say when your not driving or there in person.

Wild, I'll be running on an untreated track all summer too that is mostly 8th scale. Here's some videos from it. You can see how drastically different the surface gets LOL

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6_C3QX46jI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWB9BN6IRDc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VCXVUOYYik
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=COwxcT2LQHQ