The search for the perfect indoor track racing tyre

Just out of curiosity is there a good amount of rubber laid down at your indoor track? Or it’s clean? @Tasventouras @JeffyJ

I was recently at a track in Cologne, same type of surface as you run and same type as we run in Waldshut.

But Waldshut is clean track, here the track was full of rubber. (the picture shows pit area which was painted, it’s to showcase the rubber pickup of the tires, not the surface)

On the clean track @TZDKB didn’t seem to like the linns, and I absolutely hated my slick 9x3.5s. At that time I didn’t have my own set of linns yet.

On the rubbery track in Cologne I felt like the Linns worked quite well, can’t compare the 9x3.5s as I wasn’t running those. The only con of the linns was that they took way too long, about 3 laps of carving to heat up (could have probably been a bit quicker with higher pressure but I was lazy). Which in a race scenario would be unacceptably slow, but I was suprised that they were actually pretty good once up to temperature.

Although we couldn’t do a real comparison because neither of us could bother swapping the wheels for the exway venators which were our wheel choice on the clean track. And we also didn’t have any timing.

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