AKA is proud to announce the first of many new tire designs coming to our 1:10 buggy line up for 2020. The Scribble series of tires is a clean sheet redesign and will set the foundation of our 1:10 Buggy tire line up going forward. Our design objectives were two fold. First, design a tire with an extended performance window. Second, have it work right out of the bag with little to no prep. The first design objective of the Scribble was to extend the
performance window. To accomplish this
we concentrated heavily on getting the tire to wear even across the entire
carcass no matter the tread depth. When
tires wear unevenly from center to edge they have a very short performance
window. The Scribble carcass and tread
were designed together to compliment the properties of our clay compound
resulting in even wear across the tire. The equal wear across the entire tread pattern
creates a tire that will hold its max performance for run after run without hyper
sensitivity to tread height. The second design objective was to have a competitive
tire right out of the bag with little to no prep. The number one complaint from drivers racing
indoors on clay or dirt is how much time is spent “prepping” and or “breaking
in” the current tires on the market to make them controllable those first few
runs. We have virtually eliminated that. Our unique, flowing tread design has been developed
specifically around the properties of our clay rubber compound. The height, width and density of the tread
has been thoughtfully engineered to provide race ready lap times out of the bag
with little or no prep. No more throwing away practice runs doing final break in
on tires. Mount, sauce and race. Gil Losi put in over a year’s worth of research and testing
to develop the Scribble. Several 3D
models a week were printed until the right proportions were achieved. 100’s of hours of track time were spent
testing and proving concepts and theories with hand built tires. All this resulted in a clean sheet design for
our 1:10 Buggy line starting with the Scribble. With the Scribble you will exchange prep time for track time
and spend more time on the podium. Isn’t that what it’s all about? |