In Control?

Whichever class you focus on, it seems that one of the key talking points throughout the past two years has been tires.  In the on-road nitro classes, that discussion has largely been focused on tire additive.  For many years, the cars ran without additive being used on the foam rubber the 1/8th and 1/10th cars run on – but in recent years people began to realise the advantage the correct additive and application could provide. This dark art began to put people off racing in these classes, and races tried to find ways to prevent additive being used.  But with additive difficult to detect and police, many realised the only way to police its use effectively was to allow it to be used.

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