The Mibo Int. Race took place last weekend in Hrotovice again, but this time we were given a new carpet for the race, which has brought some nice traction. At the beginning of the event there was basically zero tire wear, but throughout the weekend, we got our tires damaged more and more and towards the end the tire game came into play as always.

I felt very comfortable out there with my XB4 from the start, as I started with my setup from EOS/BBD. I could easily seed in the top heat and move up some spots in qualifying, but settled for overall 8th starting position on the A-main grid, eventually taking overall P6, which is a great result in such strong competition!

This time, the track has brought some nice jumps compared to the last year’s event. Also compare to my last race in Belgium at BBD, it was a little more technical and also with more jumps. This meant I had to get a little bit more steering from the front end of the car. In practice, I began with increasing the EPA end-points on my Sanwa M17S radio.

As the track was a bit more tight and did not have any single jumps right before a 180 corner, I could also increase my brake to be able to come into the corner faster and steer more comfortably. I began with a few percent on my radio, but eventually added 5% also on the maximum brake on my Elceram Nitride G2 ESC.

Regarding the car setup, I started with C-D blocks in the middle height position as I saw the new carpet is going to have a lot of traction. This helped my rear end to stay calm at the beginning of the event, but as the race went on and carpet got more worn out, I dropped the C-D block to the lowest position to help generate more rear traction and stay more consistent on a 5min run.

Also, with more tight layout, I opted for the shorter rear wing. I shorten the full-size wing by 7mm, to have the overall length at 61mm. This helps a lot to generate more natural rotation from the rear end of the car. To get overall more corner speed, I kept my front and rear shocks laid down one hole compared to what we normally run, which resulted in an easy-to-drive car for 5min and allowed me to stay consistent over the qualifying and final runs.

For the final runs, we had a car from the B final spread some oil around one part of the track, which resulted in decreasing the traction overall. To compensate for the lack of steering in this part of the track and lack of corner exit traction, I added few % on my EPA steering end points for my Savox servo and quickly increased the PWM throttle frequency on my Elceram ESC from 9 to 9.5kHz, which helped get more steering there as well as better throttle control out of the corner.