tut wrote:Good luck John, expect you to take at least third in your Class.
Not too much chance against Graeme and Jennifer with their 240hp Exige.
tut
eh... nope, not with his scrubbed in tyres... A bit closer to him on his new tyres, only 2 secs off his pace but he changed tyres to his old scrubbed set for his final run and took another 3 secs off his time for the day. 
I countered that by removing a good few millimetres of front clam on the speed bumps when I had the ride height set too low.mckeann wrote:Have you painted the sidewalls of your tyres????
Surely you dont NEED to do that to race your car? Think of the extra unsprung weight of the paint
Good thing is that this year might be the last year this is possible. There's talk of awarding points as a percentage of the lap record.tut wrote:As Robin says, Graeme, especially at Kames when you can see the timer before you cross the line, will aim at beating the record by tenths of a second, so that he can then lower it again.
However in 2005 due to lack of experience, I just drove as fast as I could and lowered it from around 96 secs to 91. Of course then it becomes difficult to lower it further either that year or the next, to get your max points of 32.
tut
Graeme was using new non scrubbed tires in practice and only changed to his scrubbed set for his timed runs. The pactice times are not representive.alicrozier wrote:A percentage of the outright lap record Mac?
Interesting, looking at the results from Sunday, Graeme was obviously doing some serious sandbagging and (from my maths) took over 7/10ths off his class record, lowering it to 79.33. A proper effing quick time for an Elige btw (up there with the Caterham/Westies).
To give it some perspective my best anti-clockwise time in 2005 was 86.08 (I thought low 85 was possible with a clean run), this in a car that was running around 62's at KH...
. The third timed run on the Saturday was an 86.01 so that's not too shoddy then.alicrozier wrote:A percentage of the outright lap record Mac?
Interesting, looking at the results from Sunday, Graeme was obviously doing some serious sandbagging and (from my maths) took over 7/10ths off his class record, lowering it to 79.33. A proper effing quick time for an Elige btw (up there with the Caterham/Westies).
To give it some perspective my best anti-clockwise time in 2005 was 86.08 (I thought low 85 was possible with a clean run), this in a car that was running around 62's at KH...
I'm happy with that. Times should come down a fair bit when I get the Emerald fitted, and the tires worn down closer to the optimum. You can see in the video that I was shifting early (6k) so that compromised the run as well.alicrozier wrote:My mistake in the maths, didn't realise Sunday was clockwise so Graemes time works out at 88.04 - still blindingly quick. Clockwise I did 95.23 and tut a 91 with N1 (N/A Honda).
Yup, good times John (although R rated tyres worth at least a couple of seconds at Kames, I was on Toyo T1-R's)
Iain F did 94 back in the day with a completely standard 120bhp K-series S2...after about a hundred laps!
Hmm...I think N1 was a bit quicker than that, my std S2 111S on T1-R's would do sub 63 all day round KH, McApes N/A Honda closer to 58.tut wrote:With the extra experience and N3 I think that I would be pushing his 88 secs now Ali.
The gearing with N1 was not ideal at Kames but with the extra power and S/C torque of N3 it would have been better suited. I was lapping KH around 62 secs then but more like 57-58 now.
tut
