tires are essential parts for making your car run(duh) there are 3 different tires: reston, sponge, rubber, low bounce, pnumatic

rubber

 is the heaviest of these three.  it comes with all of the tamiya kits. has ok grip.  this tire can save you money too heres how.  since its the heaviest it is like a weight.  if your car wipes out on the track always chek the tires.  if you use a reston or sponge type tire that might be the reason. whyy?? well since the reston has the least mass (not weight, weight refers to the pull of gravity that the object has in relation to the earth) it will acellerate faster because of less rotaional mass. if you add more rottaional mass the acelleration will drop slightly.  oh and the tire isnt real rubber because it melts.  if you melted real rubber tires to a car it wouldnt work.  if someone devised an idea that would make it able to make old tires into new tires they would make a fortune

reston/sponge

(these are okami's sponge tires)

the lightest tires.these tires are realtively the same. tamiya just claims sponge is light but has bad grip and reston is better because it is lighter and has good grip.  watch out for these tires they come of too easily you can either try a thin ltring or bubblegum, super guling it which wprks great. it dosent eat throug the tire. to do this apply a medium blob of glue spread it equally on the wheel then strech the tire to mount it.  WARNING when you do this wait for about 10 miutes for the glue to dry. i only waited 20 seconds and turned on the car and some of the glue went into my eye. not funny.  i didnt have to go to the hospital or anything but my eye was erritated for 3 days. oh and if you wanna take of excess glue on the tire use acetone but dont but it on the plasitc or tire it melts it slowly.

semi pnumatic

these tires are like real tires they have air inside them!  used for tech tracks when there are inevven trak segments.  the tire takes the shock and your car dosent.

low bounce(look like rubber tires)  

are lighter rubber tires that dont bounce as much when the car exits a ramp

here is thehorde's tire graph

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