by gascarnut » Sun Jul 01, 2018 12:25 pm
OK, with Round 10 in the books and a great time had by all who ran these cars, here are the overall results:
Round 10 racing 1-20.PNG
Round 10 racing 21-39.PNG
Congratulations to the podiumites, and to everyone who entered a car. 39 cars is a major number to have to deal with in any one proxy.
Some general comments:
The #23g Porsche was effectively on its "home track" as this is where it was built and tested, so no real surprise to see it at the top of the tree. However the 2nd and 3rd cars were closer than expected and there were some really tight battles all the way down the order.
Rubber tires had the advantage on this track, and as the day wore on and the grip came up this was more and more evident. Personally, I think that Proxy Organizers should carefully consider limiting races to a single tire type in future, be it rubber, urethane or silicone.
The cars using air system wheels seemed to have a small advantage on this track, perhaps it's the little extra grip, perhaps it's the slight increase in diameter at top speed.
Some cars with taped pods could have benefited from more tape than they had, as they still exhibited some chatter.
Some cars definitely needed deeper guides and better guide mounts to reduce play in the guide pivot. My track has a downhill turn that very quickly shows up insufficient guide depth in the slot.
As stated earlier, there was very little damage all day, just the #7 car with the broken guide adaptor. One other car had a seize-up on track, that was traced to the body coming loose and jamming the tires, but that was corrected quicly and easily under a track call, so no real disadvantage accrued. This was car #32 as i recall, the HRS-2 body pegs came out of their sockets, so it was easy to relocate and continue.
I have each car's fastest laps as well, will post them in the next post.