Great looking cars!!!Nice to see some other cool cars run. Yellow Prowler. Ferrari Challenge car. Cobra. Etc.
Course was long, about a mile. Mostly straights followed by corners. Pretty representative of a normal road course.
The good news is we were able to get on the cam and stay on it for longer periods. I felt we were on it a lot during our runs.
The not-as-good news is that the cam switch over would upset the car. It seemed most of the day I struggled with throttle modulation to keep the car pointed straight.
We also learned what really happens when the ABS kicks in in a very hard corner. Yikes. Not as bad as my experience with the Spyder, but it would be best to not use the ABS as much as possible. Or get used to handling it once it kicks in.
We struggled throughtout the day, or at least I did, with certain issues. Mainly tire grip, me expecting more.. getting wheel spin, oversteer.
Towards the end of the day, we started getting more comfortable with the car and actually more comfortable with driving the crap out of it. The downside was we were losing the front tires. After about 20 runs, we were seeing cord on the Hoosiers.
That was a depressing development. It appears you have to use a lot of pressure to not cord the outside corner... and the car does not work as well with a lot of pressure. So we are at a loss as to what to do about this. 20 runs out of $1000 in tires is not my idea of a good thing.
One idea is more negative camber. We have yet to put it on a rack and get a baseline and see if we can dial in some more negative camber. That would help a lot. I will also look at the toe settings.
I am more convinced that the car can use a stiffer front bar.
Course was long, about a mile. Mostly straights followed by corners. Pretty representative of a normal road course.
The good news is we were able to get on the cam and stay on it for longer periods. I felt we were on it a lot during our runs.
The not-as-good news is that the cam switch over would upset the car. It seemed most of the day I struggled with throttle modulation to keep the car pointed straight.
We also learned what really happens when the ABS kicks in in a very hard corner. Yikes. Not as bad as my experience with the Spyder, but it would be best to not use the ABS as much as possible. Or get used to handling it once it kicks in.
We struggled throughtout the day, or at least I did, with certain issues. Mainly tire grip, me expecting more.. getting wheel spin, oversteer.
Towards the end of the day, we started getting more comfortable with the car and actually more comfortable with driving the crap out of it. The downside was we were losing the front tires. After about 20 runs, we were seeing cord on the Hoosiers.
That was a depressing development. It appears you have to use a lot of pressure to not cord the outside corner... and the car does not work as well with a lot of pressure. So we are at a loss as to what to do about this. 20 runs out of $1000 in tires is not my idea of a good thing.
One idea is more negative camber. We have yet to put it on a rack and get a baseline and see if we can dial in some more negative camber. That would help a lot. I will also look at the toe settings.
I am more convinced that the car can use a stiffer front bar.
