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looking for best brand of chassie for hard slippery new york tracks...

Its all about the driver not the chassis.

Northern California Sprintcars

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Jeff Kristensen

Any and I am quite certain any chassis will work well enough to win anywhere given the driver has the ability , equipment that is up to par or better , and the setup is close enough. An exceptional driver can somewhat overcome a deficiency in any one of these areas, but unlikely when its all 3.

I believe you should be more concerned with service, availability, reliability, and help with getting it setup for your driver.

44H

Everyone is correct here. Dry slick tracks are 80% driver / throttle control and 20% about getting weight transfer to the rear tires as quickly as possible. I used to race against many a drivers on dry tracks in the midwest and I would blast past them as they were spinning tires.

One small trick we learned over the years. When the track goes dry and you plan to run the bottom groove, instead of gearing down (to reduce RPM's) like virtually all of our competitors did, we would actually gear up. If your driver has good throttle control, the car is naturally going to turn less RPM on dry slick tracks because the car is going so much slower. In order to keep the engine in its peak torque range, we would gear up (more RPM) to keep the engine punchy off the corners. I don't recommend this if your going to run the top side of a dry slick track though.