I just got news that Atomic will be releasing a tire warmer. This is good news for people that race in cool environments, I know it will help me out a bit.
It will run off of 12v from what I have heard.
I will let you guys know more as I find out about it.
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If you tune it right I suppose you could get yourself a couple tenths for the first few laps... but these tires don't heat up that much anyways so you're really splitting hairs with a tire warmer at THIS scale. Cool transplant from 1/10 touring though.
On regupol with rubber tires the front tires temperature heats up 8 degrees celsius (I think about 14 degree fahrenheit). This happens in 3 laps at our track.
the start temp is about 22 degree celcius, and it ends up around 30 degree C after two laps. Any hotter than that doesnt happen unless you have a bad setup.
As for the rear tires they typically increase a little more. Around 10 degree C.
This was measured with a proffesional heat sensitive camera.
I dont see the need for tire warmers at all.
If anyone is interested I can share the data i got when i tested tire temp with regular front end, WTF, and A-arm also. The difference is absolutely there.
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