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racing with NG in Minitwins means sharing the grid with SoT, which can be a bit hair raising when you get lapped by the leaders on the circuits with roughly a minute lap times.
Its easier to keep out of there way if you have rubber that allows you to lap a bit faster.
Last weekend at Pembrey every session I did on the Saturday required full wets. Sunday morning practice saw the track with a drying line so I took the Class A DD bike out on Diablos and had a couple of big slides exiting the Old Hairpin and Spitfires. I later took it out in the Qualifying race on the same tyres and as the track was dry it did OK.
For the final race on Sunday I put Super Corsas on the Minitwin and used tyre warmers, I spent all race swapping places with Roberto Benini (originally signed for Class A at the begining of the season) on his 996 on slicks, didn't help the lap times but was fun.
For Pembrey I had
Super corsas for the Dry
Diablos as a form of inters
Full wets (used at every MT meeting I have taken part in this year)