Bluemustang
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Well yesterday was fun (and interesting day). Was at Dominion Raceway trackcross with @Biggsy. Second time running this course so I was more familiar with it so that made a difference. The RE71Rs are a tremendous difference. I've gained more time from it than I expected. They're so much happier at the limit and promoting a controlled rotation. If they go over the line they come back so much more easily. Morning runs someone spilled fluids all over the track so we all lost a run and then run 3 they messed up the times for me and the 4 other drivers who were last like me. This seems to be a pattern with this organization - unable to consistently and accurate record times for folks. So I only got 2 official morning laps.
Get ready for the afternoon session - we do our touring lap, go back into the grid and prepare for our first "test" run. The first actual run never counts. But I decided to ramp it up from the start so I could get closer to what 9/10 or 10/10 would be, cuz you never know how many laps you get or when they'll screw up your time when you had a great lap. The lap was feeling really good, my best of the day. Come to straightaway and I'm in 4th the whole time, so I'm going at least 130 - I start the braking zone and then that's when the splitter broke. I don't know exactly what caused it but seeing as it only happened after I started braking, I think the brake dive changed the splitter angle of attack. It was actually the mounting for the PP splitter to the bumper that failed. The ZL1 splitter bolts are still intact.
So that incident ended my day before I could get any afternoon runs in. I was thinking I had a fast lap in me. On that particular section of the course my improvement was evident because my last time here on my best run I was only able to hit 4th gear on the very end of the straight, but this time I was in 4th gear entering the straight and full throttle all the way down.
All in all it was an up and down day, but mostly up. I had a blast and could see the improvement in me and the car. So even though I broke something, I broke it doing something I love. Lol
Get ready for the afternoon session - we do our touring lap, go back into the grid and prepare for our first "test" run. The first actual run never counts. But I decided to ramp it up from the start so I could get closer to what 9/10 or 10/10 would be, cuz you never know how many laps you get or when they'll screw up your time when you had a great lap. The lap was feeling really good, my best of the day. Come to straightaway and I'm in 4th the whole time, so I'm going at least 130 - I start the braking zone and then that's when the splitter broke. I don't know exactly what caused it but seeing as it only happened after I started braking, I think the brake dive changed the splitter angle of attack. It was actually the mounting for the PP splitter to the bumper that failed. The ZL1 splitter bolts are still intact.
So that incident ended my day before I could get any afternoon runs in. I was thinking I had a fast lap in me. On that particular section of the course my improvement was evident because my last time here on my best run I was only able to hit 4th gear on the very end of the straight, but this time I was in 4th gear entering the straight and full throttle all the way down.
All in all it was an up and down day, but mostly up. I had a blast and could see the improvement in me and the car. So even though I broke something, I broke it doing something I love. Lol
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