Had a great day, just pipped by Stephen Laing in his R500 Caterham (0.15sec) but 4th Overall and 2nd in class with a 83.6sec run.
We had two 'virgins' in our class, double driving a GKD Legend (rodgling and friend) who went faster during the day with a 89.9 and 90sec
run. So well done on your first sprint guys.
Really enjoyed the day, shame Simon had to go and beat in me in my own car but still, good fun anyway. Trying to download some video now but the gopro
is playing up.
Well done on 2nd in class Jeff. Will hopefully see you there again next year.
Stephen Laing is a very tough competitor. The Quaife Sequential in the R500 makes a big difference plus Stephen is a very good driver. If you look
at the video I outbraked myself (slightly) on the last right before the finish...probable lost 0.3secs or so which would have been enough. Great days
motorsport though and the only things to beat Stephen and I where two single seaters, everything else was 3+sec back and the next in our class was
over 6 secs back.
Well....a single seater would come with the sequential (at least a BEC single seater would). First thing is to put a charge cooler on the car, see if
more power helps lol...
Driven wheels in the air isn't going to be good for time or diff/gearbox (assuming sticky tyres). But selecting suspension settings based on
course ends up being a big money game.
Bet you end up with the quaife eventually.
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posted on 8/9/13 at 01:15 PM
I competed there about 7-8yrs ago, not again. Good fun but way too bumpy for anything othr than a road car imho. After one seriius chassis thump on
the deck my back was sore for a couple of days after!
"Racing is life, everything else, before or after, is just waiting"---Steve McQueen
Wow, that is quite a lot of air. Hope the car survived it OK. Are you on fairly stiff springs?
Managed to get a sort-of-data-logged video together, based on 1 Hz GPS data from an old phone with some home-made logging software... a bit low-tech
so don't take the speed overlay too seriously:
