As with a lot of the RC world, tire selection in Rally Racing is every thing. The massive distinction, nevertheless, is that at or little native Rally spot, there are those who select to run a ‘real looking’ tire and those who select to run a efficiency tire. There’s not been a one thing that fills each segments.
Why not have each? That’s the place Jetko is available in. Their newest Rally tire, the Avantgarde, is a mixture of efficiency and scale realism, trying just like the Federal G10 Rally Tires makes use of in 1:1 racing.
We had an opportunity to take these tires out to an area Rally occasion and provides them a go and, truly, have been fairly shocked by their degree of efficiency.
Product: Jetko Avantgarde Rally Tires
Website: jetkopower.com
Purchase: jetkopower.com
Part #: JK3201CB (Claw Wheel), JK3201RB (Radial Wheel)
Scale: 1/10 Scale
Price: $43.50
Build Type: n/a
Recommended For: Those that need a scale set of efficiency Rally tires.
What’s Included
Each bundle accommodates a pair of pre-mounted Avantgarde tires on both the black Radial or Claw wheels. You’ll, in fact, want two packages for all 4 corners of your Rally automotive.
Main Features
1. The Avantgarde tire design seems actually good with a normal 1:1 Rally tread sample for glorious grip. The sample has cross lugs on the surface of the tire for ahead chunk and angled lugs on the within for cornering adhesion. The tire compound was surprisingly delicate with only a trace of air hole. Combined with a soft-ish insert, these tires really feel extra like an offroad tire than an onroad one.
2. Jetko presents the identical compound tire pre-mounted on two completely different units of wheels – the Claw and the Radial. The tires within the image above (in Item 1) are mounted on the Claws, these to the suitable are the Radials. Both have a really Rally look to them with only a barely completely different sized ‘turbofan’ wheel disc. They look good in black however, sadly, are the one shade they arrive in. Having them additionally out there in white can be a cool choice.
Performance
For the preliminary run, we mounted the Avantgardes on our Tamiya XV-02 Rally automotive and headed to the SoCal Rally Runners course in Riverside, CA. We’ve been eager to get on target for a pair weeks however, resulting from an odd quantity of rain, the observe’s been too moist to race. After a protracted wait, we have been lastly met with a surprising course lined with tall weeds, giving the observe a really real looking ‘forest’ look.
The race day goes a bit like this: there’s a bit little bit of morning apply adopted by a fast break, then every driver traces up (when prepared) and takes a timed shot on the course. Each driver will get 3 runs – that’s it – no mulligans. Your 3 instances are then averaged and the winner with essentially the most constant runs takes the highest podium spot. If you mess up, nicely, your time displays it for that run. That makes every run VERY essential.
On a facet, notice, most individuals are operating the Tamiya Rally Blocks, nevertheless there are just a few operating the Schumacher Rally Pins (together with us up thus far). These tires are the bees knees – little mini-pins that dig into the bottom for some actually nice traction.
We knew we could be at an obstacle because the Avantgardes are fairly flat and, after attempting the Schumacher tires in apply, felt like we have been barely off the tempo. But we love a problem and, after just a few modifications to the automotive to compensate for the completely different grip degree (not dangerous, simply completely different), we have been off for our first timed run.
Run 1
The first run was respectable, nevertheless the automotive was a bit extra free than we’d like. Our posted time was a 1:45.19 second lap. The quick run at this level was a 1:41.06. We’re shut, nevertheless one other fast change to the automotive was so as.
Run 2
Run 2 was higher, knocking 4 seconds off our time and posting a 1:41.12. The quick time had dropped fairly a bit, although, to a 1:37.57. We did have two small errors that simply value us about 4-5 seconds in whole – that might put us proper within the 1:37 window. These tires have been beginning to are available in and the automotive was feeling very racy!
Run 3
Another minor change was made to the automotive and, in Run 3, we have been placing in an absolute heater! The automotive was ripping via the observe, powersliding completely and squirting out of each nook with some critical grip. We have been a quick 1:37 (or possibly even a 1:36) once we got here up on the final a part of the observe. As we drove via the final berm and headed for the triple bumps, we determined to show them right into a double-single part (like we efficiently did in Run 2). However, destiny determined that was a nasty thought and we took a horrible tumble and landed subsequent to the inside barrier. In our over-excitedness to complete the run, we acquired all squirrelly proper earlier than the ultimate flip and ended up sliding off the surface of the observe, solely to get caught on an exterior barrier. Our hopes of a stellar end have been over (see the video above for the ultimate run).
Final Thoughts
After the mud had cleared (and the frustration for our silly try had subsided), the Jetko clad XV-02 took dwelling the 2nd place trophy for the day. As we sat round doing a bit bench racing, there have been just a few drivers that needed to provide the XV-02 and the Jetko tires a go to see if these tires have been actually all that. Everyone that drove the automotive had solely constructive issues to say, which means that we weren’t the one ones impressed with these kicks.
Oh, and on a facet notice, we did a timed run after the occasion and threw down a 1:37.14 with one slight mistake (a couple of second and a half). Now if we will simply do that in our 3 timed runs…
Jetko’s Avantgarde tires are the true deal. They are a bit dear however, for those who’re on the lookout for that blend of efficiency and scale, you’re not going to search out something higher.