Beautiful morning. I woke up ready for some action. Run 2 work 1 was the order and was already running late the moment i woke up. Not that i woke up late, I actually woke up at 6. I had a light breakfast and took off towards the stadium. There were 3 things i needed to do.
Buy 1 quart of oil
Withdraw 40 bucks
...and fill the tires with air
TOTALLY things i should of done the night before, but was too tired and lazy to do all that. Turns out i was able to do everything just shy of 5 mins before running. So based off yesterdays evaluation of how much grip is left in the tire I decided to run RE01R pressures. My reasoning is because of the HIGH pressures i was running previously. I didn't want the worn center section of the tire to mess with my performance... so i lowered the air in order to utilize the outside edges more. BOY was it a great decision because my first run out was AWESOME!!!
It wasn't my fastest run but sure did it allow me to trust the car even more for my next few runs. I am very pleased and proud of my setup change. A lot of thought and testing was done (almost 7 months) but it was worth it. Testing out only 1 change per event can take a long time but it is well worth the time spent as I know exactly what change caused the car to handle a certain way. Jason Flores and Stephen Yeoh also got a chance to test out our final setup settings and they LOVE it. Im happy...
Anyway back to my runs. My fastest was a 60.7xx (dirty) which was 1 tenth faster than my fastest class run. I was quite pleased especially with the tires slightly down on grip. I ended up winning the class by .6xx and took fastest ST time in both class and PAX. I think i placed top 5 in PAX today. I'll find out when the results are up.
Sunday, July 12, 2009
July 11, 2008 - SCAT Practice
So i pretty much played hookie from work today. I needed a break bad from that place but it pays good money. Anyhow, I woke up this morning about 5:45AM. For some reason i just did...i guess i was excited to finally do some real racing. Adam's Kart Track is getting tiresome and boring.
Some key things i found out today. My labeled REAR (used in front) set of tires was DEAD. Well it turns out the middle section of the tire had heatcycled out because changing pressures from 42psi to 34psi made the tires grip more. Turns out running the higher pressures for so long had killed the center section. NOTE TO SELF... do what the pyrometer tells you and not what feels better.
Well in the morning I ran a 58.873 clean for my 3rd run. Good enough to be well ahead of other drivers and thats with the tires falling off big time. In the Afternoon, I thought i would try rotating the tires in hopes that only 2 of the tires were dead. My assumptions were correct and only 2 tires were dead. My guess is from the times i ran staggered.
Anyways in the afternoon i was able to consistently clock the same time around ending with my fastest 58.4xx. I then backed off and went home since of course i needed good tires for the championship the next day.
Some key things i found out today. My labeled REAR (used in front) set of tires was DEAD. Well it turns out the middle section of the tire had heatcycled out because changing pressures from 42psi to 34psi made the tires grip more. Turns out running the higher pressures for so long had killed the center section. NOTE TO SELF... do what the pyrometer tells you and not what feels better.
Well in the morning I ran a 58.873 clean for my 3rd run. Good enough to be well ahead of other drivers and thats with the tires falling off big time. In the Afternoon, I thought i would try rotating the tires in hopes that only 2 of the tires were dead. My assumptions were correct and only 2 tires were dead. My guess is from the times i ran staggered.
Anyways in the afternoon i was able to consistently clock the same time around ending with my fastest 58.4xx. I then backed off and went home since of course i needed good tires for the championship the next day.
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