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Old 02-02-2008, 04:10 PM
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Originally Posted by ammdrew
I agree very dumb remark.

If you can wheel you can wheel rubber or foam both require superior skill to be at the top, both in setup and in driving.
Rubber mod on any surface is harder to control than foam on carpet. Rubber mod drivers have to have a sense for how much throttle to use so they don't light up thier tires or turn the front wheels past thier optimum slip angle. Neither of those are much of an issue on foam tires.

It is much harder for a foam tire racer to adapt to rubber racing than vice versa.

This is what pure foam drivers have a really hard time at Euro races, the Reedy race and Worlds.

I went to lunch with Josh Cyrul at the 2005 IFMAR Worlds and I asked him if all the foam racing he does hurts him at rubber races. He said it probably did but he has no regular place to run rubber so he has no choice but to run foams.
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