YOU DID WHAT???

Congrats on your finish though. Perhaps he was trying to show you what it would be like once I get that thing.

 

I pretty much had 2nd locked up at that point, I was desperate to find speed. (I needed more that a second.

Apparently the wing has a major effect at almost all speeds.

 

Yo Skip, how's it going! Too bad you didn't make it out this weekend. Cale, sorry to hear about the shocks...next time. I think you should toss out those RA1's and run in Street class with me. George, congrats on the 2nd place finish.

Andrew- if you're on here...which I know you are, congrats on 1st in Street RWD. I'll get you next time!

 

George, the problem may have been the number of adjustments (front and rear tire pressures, wing removal, and rear rebound).


My guess is that the tire pressures and rear rebound adjustments were fine but the wing should have stayed on. I figured that the only turn where you would really need the wing was T10 but the instability you felt at little and big bend plus the wondering on the starights means you are getting some benefit even on other portions of the track. Still, you had pretty much locked up second place and there was no way that "driver adjustments" would net you ~1 second to reach first so I think the car experimentation was worth it (after all it did not hurt your ranking and know you know about the wing effects even on straights and lower speed turns).

That M3 was seriously fast, he was blowing past me like I was standing still the weekend earlier.

Too bad about Cale's car, that would have been a good compitition since your cars are very similar.

Fun day!

 

Pete,

I did appreciate your advice, it was a good time to experiment, and I still would have gotten 2nd place with my 2nd run times.

I think perhaps my alignment isa little hosed from me replacing both rear wheel bearings and the wing masks a lot of that.

 

1:43 is a great laptime at Shenadoah..... were you on Toyo's?

Sidenote - Chad Slagg has run Toyo's the entire year and his lap times have been within about .3-.4 of the best lap times for anyone running any tires in Honda Challenge..... that says the Toyo's are pretty decent if you can get the right shave and tire pressures.

 

Yes Well worn Ra1's, I had them flipped and balanced Friday before the event. I should have left them alone.

 

That might explain the instability you got on the straights. I have never experienced instability like you described on straights. I think that would scare me from pushing it in turns.

 

It was fun hangin out with you guys Sunday

Its too bad the friendly competition with Cale and George couldnt pan out. Cale- we shoulda swapped out our suspensions so you could continue the friendly battle

I get some instability on the straights, but nothing that makes me weary of braking hard into that 1st turn. I can definitely feel some slight undulation as your going down there though.

 

I saw all the s2ks! all looked fast ... the s/c yellow was fast