Next time try jacking weight off the RF by increasing LF and RR tire
pressures and dropping RF and LR pressures.
This would have reduced understeer turning left with reduced RF tire loading
and wear.
--- Rick Brown
BP Corvette
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net
> [mailto:owner-ba-autox@autox.team.net]On Behalf Of PAUL TIBBALS
> Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2004 11:37 PM
> To: autox
> Subject: Sunday's course
>
>
> Thanks as always to the folks that make the system work! It was
> a fun event
> as always.
>
> Here's my two cents on the results of the course design. You-all may have
> noticed that the course was relentlessly left turning, with the
> big loop, and
> the general layout. Unfortunately, take that plus a car that has lots of
> weight and power, FWD with its weight distribution and tendency
> to understeer,
> somewhat worn tires on the shoulder already, and some of the
> really bad areas
> of exposed large aggregate in the GGF surface, and you get a
> corded RF tire!
> As far as I can tell it happened almost solely during the fourth
> run. These
> tires had survived about thirteen rounds, and an hour plus at
> Thunderhill on a
> track day, without any damage anywhere near this level.
>
> Just some input for future designs. I don't know if anyone else
> experienced
> this. Pressures were where I always run 'em.
> Paul T.
> p.s. Kudos to Rus for his "unconscious" run that netted him 9th OA and #1
> PAX!! You almost make it a pleasure to be whupped so badly. You
> had best be
> coming up with a way to thank Ed for those coil-overs!
>
> p.p.s. Let's say you're working course, and a car takes out /
> carries off the
> final cone in a slalom AND the pointer cone so that the workers
> cannot safely
> replace them before the next driver comes. Should the course
> workers red flag
> the following car and give them a re-run, or should the car be allowed to
> benefit from the missing slalom and turn in the best time in STS? Ooops,
> sort of gave that one away, though he's been winning the class most times
> anyway. We didn't figure out what happened until we interviewed
> the workers
> and driver later.
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