Carrera cars racing, some fast, some slow

[proxieken]

Just finished a nice evening of racing. We are getting more of the 1/24 cars and it is fast becoming a favorite. We like to run box stock racing, except for some minor tire sanding. We have a Ferrari GTO, a Cheetah, and 2 Ford GT 40 cars on the track. All except the Cheetah run prety close. That car is simply a mess. It is sideways on every corner and after a race it is typically lapped by 3 or 4 times by yhe others. It can not compete at all.

We sand all the tires down even and clean them off between races. I noticed the GT 40 cars have magnets visible while the Cheetah has the magnet hidden inside the chassis. I think this has a lot to do with it. I took it apart to see if the magnets were shimmed up or something, but they were not. Now I am faced with "tuning" one car or de-tuning the others. It seems a set of tires from Cincy slots might help. I am not at all trying to build a competition car, I just want a group of cars that can at least run with a race together without one driver being lapped repeatedly.

My question is if a set of better tires might make the Cheetah TOO good and then I would have the same problem in reverse.

Does anyone else run this car and find it a bit swervy?

[Cincyslots]

I've not run one myself but I have watched one race. It's a hand full. If you choose to purchase tires, we have a couple sets left. I'm trying to get Rubirosa to do the GT40's and 330's as well but work keeps him pretty busy.

Bruce
g2172@aol.com

[dr fabio]

You have a couple of options.

1.We have one lane on the track I race on and it is always 0.1 seconds slower than most of the other tracks. You dont try and race the other cars but its becomes a race as fast as you can without coming off concept. Do that and as you lane rotate you end up near the front. So do the cars stay on the same lane and the drivers rotate through the lanes? If thats the case then no problem, everyone gets the same "poor" car. The skill then becomes how to drive the poor car as fast as possible.

2.Put the best car on the slowest lane and the slowest car on the fastest lane to try and even things up.

3. Add extra magnets to the Cheetah to bring it up to the level of the other cars, or shim the magnets on the other cars to bring them down.

cheers
dr fabio

[Derby City Speedway]

May I sugest leaving the cars on the same lanes all thoughout your race. Just rotate the drivers. That way everyone gets to race with the best and the worst. Everyones equal that way

[goosenapper]

proxieken races on a Carrera Digital track, so leaving each car in a single lane and rotating drivers isn't an option in this case. I think what he's looking for is tuning tips from people who also race that particular car.

It's a shame too, because that car looks like it should be the front-runner. But that 1/24 Cheetah was constantly oversteering. I mean, if I could beat that car, it must be bad! :lol: