Fred Lorenzen’s cup career spanned 12 years with 26 wins, 84 top tens and 32 poles, this was achieved with only 158 races run. From 1961 until 1967 Lorenzen drove the famous white and blue #28 Ford for the Holman and Moody team. Fred was the first driver to earn over $100,000 in a single season. He was named one of the cup series 50 greatest drivers in 1998 and inducted into the Motorsports Hall of Fame in America in 2001.
Monogram’s 1/32 scale slot car of the Fred Lorenzen’s 1963 Ford Galaxie 500 #28 cup car captures the appearance of the car marvelously with with what you could call an early attempt at anaggressive line and contour right there to see. But performance-wise these cars have not enjoyed a reputation to match their looks. Still, there is hidden potential, and a couple of simple tricks will go a long way toward giving them the performance they should have.
In stock form the rear tires don’t deliver the grip they should. Switching to aftermarket tires is worth several tenths of a second per lap, depending on the configuration of your track. However, the stock tires, with a little work, may be an even better choice. Their problem, as they come from the factory, is that their tread surface is seriously concave. This means that only the inner and outer edges of the tire are touching the track. Since traction on a dry surface is a direct function of the area of rubber in contact with the road surface (the “contact patch”, as it’s known) most of the potential traction of those tires is being lost.
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