In slot car's days we were used to coat front tyres with nails enamel to reduce front grip.
Sometimes it looks like less grip on the rear axels will aid our little bcg to perform better on our track.
So, several moons ago, I coated a couple of medium rear tyres with transparent nails enamel.
As expected coated tyres have no grip at all... so the experiment is a failure !!
But... if you remove the nails enamel from coated tyres you will discover that tyres are extra grippy now !
They looks like a "softened" medium tyres, a middle between medium tyres and soft tyres.
You can drive very nice lines with them, neat laps even if high grips tyres force you to make wider turns and reduce your top speed so you need a high revs motor or an acceleration gear setup.
On the other side rear hard tyres help to drive better too, hard tyres reduce spinning and lets you to accelerate hard without loosing the little car.
I coated hard tyres with nails enamel and they softened a bit too, I'll drive with those rear tyres and I'll write a report asap !!
Stay tuned
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