Nine tracks, nine tire rules: what the posted regulations actually say

The CLUB.D entry is from a 2019 post and its current status is unknown; treat it as a snapshot of that year, not of today's rules.

Protecting the floor

RC Drift QLD is the bluntest of the nine. Rear tires must be DS Racing Competition III LF-3, they must be clean, and they must never have been run on asphalt. Its page states that other rears will damage the surface, and that running them gets you asked to leave. The front requirement is softer: LF-3 or LF4 is recommended, not mandatory. That asymmetry matters if you are buying a set — the rear is the regulated end.

Leveling the field

The R.C.D.C. regulation takes the one-make route: a single control tire, normally the host circuit's, with the 2026 control tire named as Buzz Break TOYO TIRES PROXES R1R in 26 mm or 30 mm, the 30 mm selectable at the rear. The same rule forbids processing a tire to change its grip or diameter, forbids shaving, and forbids warming tires by spinning them.

Super-G's SDC 2026 Worlds page attacks the same problem from the other side: it names DS Racing Comp III LF-3, collects competition tires after qualifying days, and issues new tires to the top 32 for the finals. The Yokomo Drift Challenge in MECCA guideline, dated 14 September 2026, allows used tires on its ZR-DRPA control tire but allows no modification.

Matching the house surface

Devils Drift Crew describes Driftstation 443 as very smooth painted concrete with very low traction, and names RêveD AS-01 as the standard tire there. The crew's own stated view is that a car which works on its floor will work anywhere — their claim about their venue, offered here as theirs.

RC SHOP MECCA lists its circuit-specified tires as ZR-DRPA, R31W436, DR-ST31PE, DT-AS-014 and others, and says the specification can change for events — but the circuit page read does not state the surface. Only the Yokomo event PDF describes ZR-DRPA as a competition tire for P-tile, and that is a statement about one event's control tire, not about the circuit floor.

ROC Drift's page labels its 600 sq ft polished concrete track in its own photo caption but does not state a tire on the page read. RC Drift QLD mandates a rear tire without stating its surface on that page.

Two venues on this list run P-tile and arrive at different answers: Super-G names DS Racing Comp III LF-3, Zero Traction names Yokomo DRC on all four wheels with no exceptions. The same surface, two different mandated tires. That disagreement is the most useful line in the table — it tells you the rule is the track's, and you cannot derive it from the floor.

If you drive one track, buy what that track mandates and spend your tuning time on geometry, gyro gain and weight instead. If you travel between venues, assume nothing transfers: a spec tire at one P-tile track is not the spec tire at the next one, and an event guideline can override a circuit's standing list, as the Yokomo Drift Challenge in MECCA PDF does. And if you are entering a judged event under a one-make control tire — the R.C.D.C. model — read the prohibited-work clause before you touch a tire with anything at all.