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Well maybe I should be too but I'll come back to that in a sec.
Good day yesterday, decided to to do the afternoon and the evening rounds. The afternoon practice was good and gave a relaxed format of 7 min rounds to practice/play/tweak. As I was there by myself for the afternoon I was slightly billy-no-mates and wasn't doing a huge test and tune session so probably could have got away with just doing the evening race event.
I go there, set up my little corner
and set to glueing up the tyres I bought from one of the boys there. Did the rears fine; the font NS got a little fiddly when I realised I'd glued the tyre with somehow half the bead showing proud of the rim (not seated properly) panic ensued and I managed to pry the rubber off the plastic and re-seat it properly. So out for .. 7 I think rounds of practice.
I was not feeling it. The car felt vague, inconsistent and slow. Thought it might be me and the fair mount of Glenlivet 12 I'd consumed the night before but I just wasn't gelling with the car or the track. After round 5 I was back in the pits checking over the car and realised Id forgotten to glue the front OS tyre to the wheel
That'll explain it! Got it glued and the car was understandably much better.
I don't seem to have taken any pictures really, this being the last one for afternoon practice
So onto the evening session and Paul (has a thread running on here with another Yokomo 3.1) attended and was great to have racing partner and someone to have a chat to between rounds. His Yokomo was lovely and he was fast out the gates, will look forward to reading his rundown of the night on his thread!
Was a good evening, same mix of semi-clean driving and total chaos / mistakes costing lots of time. I ended up last (7th) in the D final and finished 4th after a short stint in 2nd / 3rd. Another really enjoyable evening made much better by Pauls attendance, look forward to the next race event.
Good day yesterday, decided to to do the afternoon and the evening rounds. The afternoon practice was good and gave a relaxed format of 7 min rounds to practice/play/tweak. As I was there by myself for the afternoon I was slightly billy-no-mates and wasn't doing a huge test and tune session so probably could have got away with just doing the evening race event.
I go there, set up my little corner
and set to glueing up the tyres I bought from one of the boys there. Did the rears fine; the font NS got a little fiddly when I realised I'd glued the tyre with somehow half the bead showing proud of the rim (not seated properly) panic ensued and I managed to pry the rubber off the plastic and re-seat it properly. So out for .. 7 I think rounds of practice.
I was not feeling it. The car felt vague, inconsistent and slow. Thought it might be me and the fair mount of Glenlivet 12 I'd consumed the night before but I just wasn't gelling with the car or the track. After round 5 I was back in the pits checking over the car and realised Id forgotten to glue the front OS tyre to the wheel
That'll explain it! Got it glued and the car was understandably much better. I don't seem to have taken any pictures really, this being the last one for afternoon practice
So onto the evening session and Paul (has a thread running on here with another Yokomo 3.1) attended and was great to have racing partner and someone to have a chat to between rounds. His Yokomo was lovely and he was fast out the gates, will look forward to reading his rundown of the night on his thread!
Was a good evening, same mix of semi-clean driving and total chaos / mistakes costing lots of time. I ended up last (7th) in the D final and finished 4th after a short stint in 2nd / 3rd. Another really enjoyable evening made much better by Pauls attendance, look forward to the next race event.
Quick update, still racing at Caldicot.. Good night for paulstarrally and I. Good to see Paul and have a good natter between races and comparing notes on how badly we were doing after each round 
Ive recently replaced the oils in the shocks and the diff (manual standard shock oil and 6000wt instead of 5000wt in the diff) and new tyres put on (fusion fronts) and the car hit it's sweet spot from about round 3 onwards, ultimate grip and was performing well, better than the pilot. Ended up in the 2wd C final and had no place being there; started 7th an finished 7th.
paul was good enough to a) bring haribo and b) gift me the ali front upper arm mount which was very gratefully received. It’ll be fitted along with a new standard brace up front as I noticed this was cracked this evening.
Great night and good racing; both cars did very well and hope we’re both looking forward too the next one
Ive recently replaced the oils in the shocks and the diff (manual standard shock oil and 6000wt instead of 5000wt in the diff) and new tyres put on (fusion fronts) and the car hit it's sweet spot from about round 3 onwards, ultimate grip and was performing well, better than the pilot. Ended up in the 2wd C final and had no place being there; started 7th an finished 7th.
paul was good enough to a) bring haribo and b) gift me the ali front upper arm mount which was very gratefully received. It’ll be fitted along with a new standard brace up front as I noticed this was cracked this evening.
Great night and good racing; both cars did very well and hope we’re both looking forward too the next one
Edited by squareflops on Saturday 25th May 11:14
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