With the track being open until late in the evenings, we wanted to get as much track time as possible each day, so stayed at the track late every evening, just finding time for a late Italian resturaunt one evening which was great fun, even the ‘lemon cello’ drinks they forced on us all.
We tried many things with the setup, made lots of progress and it was really good together with Nathan who gave up his own track time to prepare one of the 2 cars to allow our off-road superstar as much lmp12 practise as possible! Thanks Nathan, it was a little too much on my own, as you know based on how much help you gave us!! You definately tried and worked your hardest as seen below 😝
Track Tips
For this type of track, where it is permanent and oil based additives are used, huge grip levels are found. We made a number of key changes which I can share.
-Reducing the additive time from what you would normally run. This would prevent the car from lifting wheels.
-It is useful to also reduce caster and camber to achieve a similar goal. We ended using 0.7degrees of negative camber.
-Tyre sizes reduce down to a maximum of 41mm rear and 40mm front also helps a load. We ended on these sizes, possibly even smaller rears down to 40.5mm later in the days as the traction becomes so high.
-Use of ultra light bodyshells made a big difference. We found the Team Bomber Ultra Light to be great.
-In it’s current form, the main straight is very bumpy, we raised the bodyshell lowest point to 8mm to help this.
-The corner markers get very grippy so stay off them, that and the weird plates used which are like mini jumps. You really want to avoid those, especially as there quite dark coloured. This is one of the many challenges of the Racing Arena Limburg.
It was awesome to see Michal Orlowski with such a fan base. I found it really cool to see that even in RC racing there is so much interest in the top level guys. This also highlighted how strong RC racing is going into the future.
After being asked to sign autographs for them all, he even stopped to take a photo with them. 😎
As always we learned so much for each day I can’t blog on everything all at once in detail, so hopefully this knowledge gets passed on through the posts I will continue to do for each event into the future!
Learning as a team with everyone helping each other and learning together made it even more awesome and worthwhile. Thanks for coming everyone!
We finally made it back to the Euro tunnel, sadly our train is 22:20 so will try to get an earlier one. For myself 2.5 hours back to my house isn’t so bad, but feel bad for Adam and Kel who have to then go another 3hours 🙈 so they might get Home by 5am if there lucky!
Next up is chesterfield, last round of the BRCA LMP-12 nationals this coming weekend!
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