I know you've been waiting for this!, Lime Rock Race Highlights Video Options

[ChrisFoley]

Here's the link: American Pride National Race
My one win this season. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smilie_pokal.gif)
Pretty good resolution, so download to watch. (16Mb, about 6 minutes long.)
The link is also on my website in the Racing Gallery along with a few of my older videos.

[ChrisFoley]

QUOTE (Cabasa @ Aug 30 2005, 02:34 AM)

Were you holding back till the end of the race? It looks like you had some reserve at the end, because you were just flying around people. It also looks like that british tube car wasn't as capable in the turns as you.

Quite honestly I was holding back for the entire race! (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/smile.gif)
This was the first successful track test of my new engine from Jake Raby. I kept it running rich all weekend and I was a little slow out of the last turn on nearly every lap. Also, there was a lot of traffic.
I have still turned a few slightly faster laps at Lime Rock with my old engine when the conditions were perfect.

The yellow car is a Caterham, a Lotus Super 7 clone with a Ford Zetec (2.0L) engine. It seemed to me that the driver just didn't get the flow of Lime Rock. That car should handle the corners as well as my car considering how light they are (under 1500 lb). I nearly hit him going into the uphill after we lapped a slower car.

Along with the new engine I was using a new gerbox for the first time with much closer ratios from 2nd to 5th (A, I, M, Q, V), and a ZF limited slip diff. I discovered that the limited slip makes the car drastically understeer if you enter a corner with the throttle closed. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/blink.gif) That's how the yellow car got past me.

The white TR6 (E Prod) is pretty fast in a straight line but the driver isn't that good in cornering. With the old engine I used to have to set him up carefully in order to execute a pass. He made room for me to pass on the straight by moving to the right but normally I expect to be the one to go all the way to the right for a pass like that. What made me real happy was I could pass the front Datsun 510 under braking from such a big distance back. (IMG:http://www.914world.com/bbs2/html/emoticons/driving.gif)