Originally Posted by peter_robinson
yes vegas is jack the gripper, however this year the track did not even groove up... there was barely more traction than a green track. just look at photos from the race, theres barely a visible groove around the track.
and bleeding noses, burning eyes, and cracked skin on your fingers are a better alternatives? these are the symptoms of jack the gripper at the vegas race, experienced by probably 50% of the people there...
A lot of that had to do with the ultra-low humidity in that room. Notice you had to wet your soldering iron sponge about 6 times a day? If it's sucking all the moisture out of a damp sponge that quickly, imagine what it's also doing to any traction compound on the carpet, or to the insides of your nose.
The humidity in Vegas is already in the 10% range. Go into a mega-ventilated room, and it was probably half of that.