I say we forge ahead with things as they are.  We learned how to drive to Trans Am cars to good effect and they exhibited the same deslotting/reslotting behavior as the F1’s. Besides, its a bit late to change the theme unless we push the start date back a few weeks.  

Thinking out loud here, but I’ve been noodling on the traction magnet issue with this class, and wondered if we simply moved the magnet to the nose of the car so it would help to keep the guide in the slot?  That way the car should still drive more naturally, but be less prone to jumping out of the slot.  Of course it may also just make it reslot in the adjacent lane quicker too… again.. thinking out loud.

B

I was kind of hoping we could race with the car just as it came out of the box. Leave the magnet in, oil the bearings, and go racing. Thank God we now have a kill switch, as I see a lot of unintentional lane changes with the F1’s. I have “lost” 2 non-magnet cars due to damage for this same occurrance, jumping into another lane and smashing the wall at full speed. Maybe leaving the magnet in place will cut down the frequency of this hazzard.

As far as tires go, I have not had good results trying to run Slot.It tires on Scaley wheels. They just don’t fit correctly. If we can run with the magnet, the stock Scaley tires seem to work okay. Anyway, that has been my experience.

Brian, how about an “exhibition” heat of skinny tire F1’s? I’m up for it if you are.

My 2 cents,

Jim J.

I’m up for an exhibition race.  Goodness knows I have enough Ferrari and Cooper Climax cars for that.  And you have the tin-plates…

Brian,

Sounds like fun. I’ll probably run the Maserati as I think it may be a little quicker than the Ferrari (stronger magnet?)

Jim