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I’ve been reading up on full scale rally preparation. Real rallies seem to have a recon guided tour a day or two before the rally at less than full speed.
The Targa Florio has used many different routes, but always published the route early and the teams traditionally drove a road car, or put a license plate on their race car, and drove the course in traffic during the week before the race. Recent courses have been short enough that cars did 11 laps and did not use a navigator. They did often change drivers and have a pit stop.
Running our Targa Florio race I suggest we start having practice on Thursdays and Saturdays plus Sundays if it is tolerated by Kings. We should do some scheduling, like us golfers do with tee times, so that members can be assigned an hour (?) with one or two others to practice. No mandatory marshaling. Some members may want to run more laps than others, but everyone should keep an open mind to letting the others assigned the time to get equal time on the track.
I believe many members will be testing more than one brand of car or more than one car of the same brand. Full size teams would really put that kind of effort in. We should go ahead and allow plenty of practice.
Beats me. Do you know how to rename a forum? Maybe we start a new forum, then cut and paste the pertinent text to the new page. Actually this page becomes redundant when the specs are published.
This Thursday evening I opened the tire trueing machine cabinet and notice two tires still mounted on the high tech truer. The machine was covered in rubber, but the compressor would not blow away the tire dust. There was oil/(lighter fluid? ) fused or compounded with rubber. I prefer the other truer so I just put the mess back in the shelf.
Some one please clean the machine and take the tires. It only seems fair that who ever left it messed up should clean it
How many rear tire sets should we expect to use during the series including 100’s of practice laps? Are we also using new sponge front tires pre-mounted on wheels?
Tremendous praise to Marty for snagging the back-up data and for Stephen suffering through the storm and data for a couple of hours to get the tables for Russell. I really like the blue/green/yellow coding on the individual heat table. Thanks true servants of the club.
My Dad the Radial tire engineer discovered that the tires did not cool like bias ply tires. The hook conveyor usually used to move hot tires from the curing mold machines would leave the radial tires out of round. It required the addition of a machine at the press called a post cure inflater that kept the tire round during cool down, and a ring around the tire blew cool air on the outside. Getting the slot car tires solid and round probably is one of the major failures we see in our scale tires. Good luck.
And who carries the wheels that I did not fin on the first two sites I checked. Also what tires and which vendor? I know we are a few months away from running even practice, but I don’t want to get caught without the tires.
I expect to run the Porsche I ran last year that has yellow marking number 64. My car has a different number to distinguish it from the factory version.
Thanks to Marty for ferreting out the set up issues that vary over the production run of the McL cars and thanks to the members for helping us resolve the issues last Saturday. I hope John beats us all with the car that seems to have inherited the real McL dna.
The rules are done.
i put a dark orange motor in place of the orange one in the 48 McLaren. Slower lap times.
