This is the prefered rear tire for Proline Racing by our racers. When used as a front tire it typically offers less aggressive handling than say a Proline Electron.
Week 1 through moisture cycle (first 2 weeks of a layout) a treaded to ghost pin type MC (Clay) is the ideal rear tire
Also works best early on in the day when the track is still damp from over night watering
Componds used are MC and S3, MC (-17) is typically used when the track is newest or on practice days when grip is lower. S3 (-203) is used primarily only in a full slick or ground down ghost pin when track conditions are dryer and higher bite.
Sauce is recomended for each run. We have have 2 popular options Stickykicks Purple or Liquid Wrench (Yellow Label)
This is the prefered front tire for Proline Racing by our racers. When used as a rear tire it typically offers slightly more initial side bite as a trade off of lower center to exit forward bite.
Same bullet points as Positrons with a couple tuning tips for front tire suace application below.
How much of the tire you suace will change handling, full sauce will be more aggressive, doing only the inner 1/4 portion can take away steering aggression.
Some also find no sauce works best for them after the break in period for front tires
This is the prefered High traction tire for Proline Racing by our racers. These tires are typically matched front to rear and offer the best grip and feel when the track is at peak grip.
Week 3 and beyond this is typically the tire used for racing or or similar. (You can use worn down tires to a similar effect)
Works best on race days when the track has more laps and is more frequently blown off.
Compounds used are S3 and MC, S3 (-203) (Also known as tripple silver) is the primary compound when conditions call for this near treadless or full slick type tire. MC Shows or ground down slicks are some times used in MC (-17) compond when the track rubbers up and stil has moisture. THis occasionaly happens on the first couple race nights.
S3 compound works best if you sauce and heat cycle the tires before use
This is an alternative to Positrons or Electrons. It features a combination tread design that is ideal for momentum style racing.
Works best when track has moisture.
Compounds available are MC and S4 MC (-17) is typically used by our stock (21.5 racers) it feels better sooner and isn't as
"locked in" slowing the car down as the more common tire option would. Useful for those who do not use much push brake. S4 (-204) is a softer option than S3
This is the Most Popular Jconcepts tire by our racers. It works well as front or rear and from tread, to ghost, to slicks.
Treaded tires work best the first couple weeks of a layout.
Jconcepts is a more affordable tire option.
Componds used are Gold (-05) Medium Clay and Silver (-06) Soft Clay. Traditionally Gold is the compound that works a full track cycle.
Silver works when the track is new and also again has good success when Proline S3's work.
Sauce is recomended for each run. We have have 2 popular options Stickykicks Purple or Liquid Wrench (Yellow Label)
This was the gem of the Jconcepts tire lineup, still popular by many of our racers.
This tire features a straight forward design that works well to calm down steering when used in the front and offers consistent rear grip when used in the rear.
Used most often as fronts to gain a numb predictable steering feel.
Compound used is typically just gold (-05), This tire does have a longer break in period especially in the front as the slightly taller and more dense design takes time to break in.
When this was a top option front tire we would sand them slightly so they would match rear tire wear and offer desired steering in fewer break in runs
See Proline Electron notes for tips on Saucing front tires
>This is the prefered high grip Jconcepts tire by our racers. The tire features a slick like design with some negative spacing to maintain grip while passing over dust.
Typically used once the layout starts to age and build both natural and grooved grip.
Works best on race days when the track has more laps and is more frequently blown off.
Can be used in multiple compounds, but we tend to use it only in Gold and Aqua 2. Gold (-05) can be used when teh grip level is up, but the moisture level is also up.
Aqua 2 (-03) is used more often with this tire from about week 3 on of a layout.
Aqua compound works best if you heat sauce and heat cycle the tires before use.
These are great tires to get you started, but we do recommend upgrading your tires to get the maximum performance out of your tires.
Typically just running the tires 2-3 times once you mount your tires up the tires should feel more broke in and have more traction. If you feel going more advanced we sell all
of the stuff in the track to sand down tires to break your tires in faster. Here is a video on how to do that:
