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Howdy friends.  We started talking about the upcoming summer series for Fly Cars last night and the talk turned to tires, probably should have gone to wheels too.  As it turns out, we have some options.

We are currently running the Fly Classics at Penguin Point and are providing hand-out urethane tires to all that want to use them.  The offer the following advantages:

1.  Easy to true
2.  Excellent grip
3.  Fit the Fly wheels like a snug glove, no gluing needed though you certainly could
4.  FREE

Other possibilities would be to use a silicon or rubber tire.  Personally I think we should steer away from the hard-to-true and time-consuming to do so silicone tires like the SuperTire.  SuperTire also has the YellowDog line of urethane tires if that's your company of choice.

It's also been pointed out that Slot.It will be switching over to urethane tires in the very near future so the time may have come to consider saying goodbye to the silicone tire era.

My personal choice would be to use the free handouts and allow any other type of rubber or urethane tire.  But this begins to head toward tire wars.  So the handout would be easiest.

Then there's the wheels.  Basically the wheels on the Fly cars have issues, mostly with the fronts.  They are out of round on most of the cars I have and replacement wheels are near impossible to get.  We probably need to allow most any wheel that fits the purpose as long as it looks the part.  No O-rings or Zero-Grip rubber bands on the fronts.

Comments?

A field of eleven racers showed up for the first race in the new Penguin Point Lifetime Points Series.  The cars of choice were FLy Classics.  The heats were 2 minutes in length.

Basically drivers earn points in each heat:

1st: 5 points
2nd: 3 points
3rd: 1 point

A perfect score for the afternoon would be 30 and two drivers were able to achieve the full 30 points - Rico and Greg.  Congrats to all on a fine effort and especially Victoria for really getting her lunch on as well as all the other contributors.  Food outnumbered racers by a tremendous margin. 

Here are the official results:

1.  Rico and Greg - 30
3.  Monte and AJ - 26
5.  George - 18 (won tie-breaker)
6.  Mike - 18
7.  Jack - 14
8.  Timba - 12
9.  Victoria - 10
10. Jimmie - 8 (First-timer)
11. Bryan - 3