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JConcepts at the 1:8 Off Road European Championships

Posted on Friday, 16 July 2010 04:02PM by
JConcepts takes 3 positions in the A-Final at 1:8 Off Road European Championship.

Event: 2010 EFRA 1:8 Off Road European Championship
Date: July 6-10 2010
Location: Just outside Guarda in Portugal

We opened up our blog of the Euros after day one and unfortunately thereafter we got sucked into the hard work and long days of the event to not be able to continue with our daily reports. Having now got home, I am able to reflect on what was a successful event for Team JConcepts…

After the untimed practice on Tuesday, We then had 2 timed practices on wednesday, the re seeding of the heats and then a final practice run in the new re seeded heat order. The timed practice gaveus a change to see who was laying it down together with the target to get in the top 60 and be placed in a qualifying heat with the top drivers. One round of the two was to count toward this, but the most important thing was to learn the track and get the set up right. For the first run we wanted to test Subcultures in yellow.

The yellow compound worked well in untimed practice, we just needed to know if the smaller pin worked better than the blocky Crossbow or Crowbar, as so many other drivers were using a pin type tire of other brands. As it turned out, the smaller pin did not work out for us, proving that on the dusty sections, it did not cut through and on the smoother sections, the pin rolled over providing less grip. In order to balance this out, other drivers were now looking at softer compounds to get grip. Long term, I saw this as a bad move as the softer tire would be worn out after 10 minutes and also to start over heating. I needed to get a tire on Lee’s car that was good for qualifying but also a tire that we would use for the longer finals. Well at least that was the plan.

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