marcusLondon
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All,
Just to let you know that my racing 2.7 will be at the Festival, in the Club Motorsports area. Its next outing in anger will be at Croft circuit for the final 2 rounds of the Club Championship on the weekend of 23rd / 24th September.
By then we will hopefully have shed some more weight and got the engine to peak fitness, all of which should improve the power-to-weight by around 9% over its last outing. [There will still be about 30-40kgs to lose after that (another 3% on the p:w) but we won't get that off this race season.] At the last race we did, at Cadwell Park, the omens were fair: the car was clearly slow down the straights (Class 2 cars could simply drive away from me, even with me tucked in behind them getting a tow), but under brakes and in the twists I think our big-braked, mid-engined chassis will do the business - once I get the suspension tuned a little. It was an odd mix of high-speed oversteer and lower speed understeer at Cadwell so I need to do a test to play with the ride-heights and shock settings to get the most from it. That said, it wasn't slow in the corners anyway, and was right there with the Class 2 cars which are often good through the bends because of their lower weight.
Cheers all,
Marcus
Just to let you know that my racing 2.7 will be at the Festival, in the Club Motorsports area. Its next outing in anger will be at Croft circuit for the final 2 rounds of the Club Championship on the weekend of 23rd / 24th September.
By then we will hopefully have shed some more weight and got the engine to peak fitness, all of which should improve the power-to-weight by around 9% over its last outing. [There will still be about 30-40kgs to lose after that (another 3% on the p:w) but we won't get that off this race season.] At the last race we did, at Cadwell Park, the omens were fair: the car was clearly slow down the straights (Class 2 cars could simply drive away from me, even with me tucked in behind them getting a tow), but under brakes and in the twists I think our big-braked, mid-engined chassis will do the business - once I get the suspension tuned a little. It was an odd mix of high-speed oversteer and lower speed understeer at Cadwell so I need to do a test to play with the ride-heights and shock settings to get the most from it. That said, it wasn't slow in the corners anyway, and was right there with the Class 2 cars which are often good through the bends because of their lower weight.
Cheers all,
Marcus
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