Traction!
Guys, another disappointing evening. I got a hold of a bottle of Niftech to try tonight at my local track. This track uses pretty much all TQ traction products, but the 12th scale cars are not doing so well. We have the latest rubber backed CRC Fast Track carpet that is now two months old. For an added fact, I took my temp gun to the carpet surface and found that it was 60F. I cleaned a set of Jaco purple front wraps and double pink rear wraps with a rag and motor spray to start off with a base line tire. I applied the Nifteck fully to the rears and 50% to the fronts. It evaporated quite quickly, like less then 5 minutes. So I re-applied the same amounts and again, it evaporated in about 5 minutes. The car ran quite well for the first 4 laps, then continued to push more with every lap. Finally at 3 minutes, it had rediculous push with a uncontrollabe oversteer "on throttle". The tires were a gooey mess up front and rather normal looking in the rears. I took the same car and battery back to the pits, cleaned the tires, and literally used WD-40 as traction sauce. Full rears and 50% fronts. Wipped them 10 minutes later and tossed the car back out there. It actualy lasted about 4 minutes before it was awful to drive.

Needless to say, I withdrew from the nights racing as did the entire feild of 12th scalers. Un able to complete a run due to uncontrollable traction conditions.

If I was new to 12th scale, I would have given up long ago. But I have about 20 years doing this and I have never seen this before.

I guess that I am asking if anyone out here races with other scales with multiple traction sauces being used, if you have found that magic bullet to cope with this?

Does anyone think that additional heat in the building and/or some box fans to circulate air after hours would help evaporate the TQ out of the carpet?