30x9 Radial Slick For Brackets

1700camaro · 01-10-2016, 01:11 PM

I was a little apprehensive on using radial slicks for bracket racing. I'm glad I made the decision to use them!

While I had a great racing year, better than planned. The radials played a good part in my success.

Our home track is The Strip in Las Vegas, NV. Most of our racing was done in the daytime with some pretty hot track temps. We also ran in CA. & UT.

We made around 125 runs this year. We had 2 passes that we spun & that was my fault. The 1st time was on cold less than stellar track prep, but not bad by any means. We was using a launch retard, because I thought that was needed for the conditions. My 1 son had made his 1st pass & ran a 9.92 @ 136. He wanted to go into the 80s & I told them the track will not hold it. So, both my sons were admit that I turn off the launch retard. We were rewarded with our 1st spin on the radials, LOL!

The 2nd spin was at the Las Vegas Thanksgiving race. Temps were below freezing during the night. My 1st run early in the morning (track not very warm) I spun. I attribute this spin to not enough burnout. We do a very short burnout & it works great in the heat. We started doing more burnout for the rest of the race & had no problems.

01-10-2016, 01:11 PM	#14
1700camaro Member Join Date: Mar 2010 Posts: 316 Likes: 117 Liked 226 Times in 115 Posts	Re: 30x9 Radial Slick For Brackets I was a little apprehensive on using radial slicks for bracket racing. I'm glad I made the decision to use them! While I had a great racing year, better than planned. The radials played a good part in my success. Our home track is The Strip in Las Vegas, NV. Most of our racing was done in the daytime with some pretty hot track temps. We also ran in CA. & UT. We made around 125 runs this year. We had 2 passes that we spun & that was my fault. The 1st time was on cold less than stellar track prep, but not bad by any means. We was using a launch retard, because I thought that was needed for the conditions. My 1 son had made his 1st pass & ran a 9.92 @ 136. He wanted to go into the 80s & I told them the track will not hold it. So, both my sons were admit that I turn off the launch retard. We were rewarded with our 1st spin on the radials, LOL! The 2nd spin was at the Las Vegas Thanksgiving race. Temps were below freezing during the night. My 1st run early in the morning (track not very warm) I spun. I attribute this spin to not enough burnout. We do a very short burnout & it works great in the heat. We started doing more burnout for the rest of the race & had no problems.