In practice I only cleaned my tires and had plenty of traction. In the races I used Marinade and it helped improve corner entry more than anything. Paragon GE has never worked for me on asphalt. Now Paragon FXII works great on asphalt.
George - No worries about the rocks. It was about the size of a bacon bit. It didn't hurt anything on the car. I picked it out of the pulley, now everything is good to go.
