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Got some Quick Slicks silicone tires for the 1/24 scale BRM Porsche 917k and Ferrari 512M. Part # is BR01XF. I'm very pleased with the product, from appearance, fit and performance. We like racing the 1/24 BRM 917 and Ferrari 512, but most of us with plastic tracks run silicone tires on our 1/32 scale cars. So if we wanted to run BRM, after thoroughly cleaning the silicone residue from the track, we had to run hundreds of laps with BRM rubber or foam tires to get good grip. Then, if we wanted to run our 1/32 cars with silicone tires afterwards, had to clean the track again, then run a bunch of laps for the track to come back in.

Problem solved with these Quick Slicks tires. This is the Extra Firm (XF) compound, with rounded edges on both inside and outside of the tire, nice flat contact patch. See pics below:










Testing on my Carrera track, this car runs about same lap times as a Slot.IT Group C car, an excellent drive. Smooth accelleration, no chattering around the turns, tires are true, when pushed to limits the car slides a bit to give you a chance to recover instead of tipping over, or flying off the track. I have radius 2 and 3 banks, and the tires are the right size so the car doesn't wash out on the bank or transition straights coming in and out the turn.

Several racers wanted this tire made in silicone, but requests were declined from another manufacturer, until now with Quick Slicks. to Quick Slicks for listening to racers, by making a silicone tire for this series of cars that nobody else does. Getting ready to run a series of races at the big Carrera track at Pinion Twisters in Riverside, NJ, looking forward to it.

Hoping BRM plastic track racers will buy these tires to help support a company comprised of guys that actually race the cars they make.

Great to see the racers getting the toys they want.

I've run Quick Slicks on my 1/24th and they are great! Even without doing any trueing, they ran smoothly. I haven't had a chance to get some that are rounded on the inside and outside yet. Looks like I need to put in an order.

Let's get a series going?

Plans in the works for NJ/PA tracks...starting with a race at Pinion Twisters, probably in February, then if enough interest we'll run a series on the Carrera tracks of K. Daniels, M. Baskin, R. Holt, hopefully E. Hans, and if track is ready, J. Wang. Stay tuned.

Thanks Eric, appreciate it, and definitely want to wait for the Penn Jersey series to finish, there is actually something else in life than slot car racing.