Hi,
I am aware of all the setup sheets that is available here at the forum and I have been looking through a bunch of them. My issue is that I have a 7 year old boy driving and he really is having issues to get by with the Xray (XB8-14) on the home track, which is a high grip concrete track. He is young, but starting to become fairly good as a driver (considering the age...). As you can imagine, he is not always the smoothest driver and I am looking for a easy to drive/neutral/forgiving setup of this car.
We have an Intech BR6 which is far more easy to drive and simply much more neutral in its behavior. I need and want to take XB8 in this direction as well. In short, the Xray is to direct, nervous is an other word that can be used. It flips over the outer front wheel far to easy and if you are to brutal on the gas it will go crazy unless you are perfect in line.
We have tried both the cars on a mid/loose grip track as well and here it is another story. it is only the high grip thing that is the main issue. I have only tried the Car a couple of times myself and clearly the XB8 is a great car and with A LOT of steering capabilities. The issue is that it is too precise, it requires a lot of the driver and to much for a child to handle on a high grip track.
I have tried a number of different setups on the car and for sure things has improved a lot, but we are not "there" with he setup yet and over time we probably have made some things worse as well.
I am not questioning the capability of this car in the hands of a great driver, but on our high bite surface at the home track, we are currently struggling to find a neutral/ easy to drive set up with the XB8.
So here come the question and the favor that I would ask from you: How would you suggest a base setup to be for the most neutral/easy to drive/forgiving behavior on a high bite concrete track? I would very much appreciate if any of you could put it down on a setup sheet and post it.
Tyres is probably a questions that comes up for some reading this and we have tried a lot of them and the thing is that I am comparing what other drivers are using and we simply cannot use the same tires as the do. Currently the best tire that works for us is the Pro-Line Fugitive X2. Thanks MagnusJ
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