I was looking around and there does not seem to be a proxy for silicone shod cars. Spoke briefly to Mike at Cloverleaf and bounced around some ideas. So here are some thoughts.
What if we find a brand of cars that needs some help in promoting their product. So for example Thunderslots, Scale Auto or even the new version of the inline Scalextric that can easily accept after market gears, rims, pickup shoes etc. Wheel size would have to be specified. We limit the motor to either stock or a maximum of say 25K RPM.
Cars could be tuned as you would normally, but when sending the car in for the proxy it would only have rear wheels with no tires mounted. So for example cars could be sent to Cloverleaf and all cars would receive a pair of Quickslick Silicone Tires that would be slipped on with no truing. From there it would go to select tracks that are Silicone friendly and we would have I believe an interesting proxy event.
The one knock on Silicone tires is they are hard to mount and true. We know there are some masters out there, Smokeio you know I mean you are one of them :D .
The other is people do not want to run Silicone on a track that is used for rubber and/or urethane tires. So if we address these issues might it be possible?
Anyways it is just a thought...comments welcome just don't shoot the messenger :idea:
Aloha
Dale