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Originally Posted by Chrislong
Yeh thats true, I used to use that stuff too, was ace.
But even on modern additives, it leaves a darkened line on the carpet - look at the carpet NERCR uses on the straight - its a great big piece of carpet which had been used by the BRCA for a demonstration and now NERCR have it, in just one demo it has black zig zags up it from additives. Yet a year or 2, or 3, of racing at NERCR with spikes on it and its just as good today as the first day they got it.
Spikes do no harm.
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In fact, the carpet in question has only been used for one buggy meeting (the NERCR regional a few months ago), and although there is no damage from the spikes, the carpet was quite heavily damaged (many rips) from where it had been used to cover a jump.
The heavy lines on the carpet are probably not from additive, the edges are sharp, defined semi-circles, I think it is more to do with what has been placed on the carpet in the past or how it was stored, it's like the carpet's colour has been bleached.
Spikes - probably not so bad, especially soft compound small spikes. Wouldn't like to see a regional run on blue full spikes. Jumps (and exposed shock towers) are pretty bad for carpet though.