Right, so after a couple of bad weekends, (Italy and winter nats) I've got a descision to make, either I take my "summer break" from racing early, or do I get stuff ready and prep for ETS Poland in April??
I had a sit down and think about all the international races I've done over the past 5 or so years and come to the conclusion that there was only 2 races where I was happy with how I did, or, where nothing went wrong and wrecked either prep or the race... Let's face it, that's a pretty crap record when you consider the amount I've done. :-/
At the moment im leaning more towards just stopping for the time being and not worrying about it, I know it'd be less of a hassle not to go, but to carry on means sourcing a new radio power supp and charger (all of which broke in Italy)
Either way I'll keep everyone informed with what happens.
Ciao
Wednesday 15 February 2012
Thursday 2 February 2012
Disaster aka Winter national
Hmm sounds familiar...
Well this was my first time running on Sorex kicks since I came back racing. And honestly, after running on Ride/Moorespeeds, I hate them. They just feel so plasticky and hard, the wheels are far from round and I general always used to make my car feel like I was driving on ice. This weekend was no exception!
With only 1 round of practise on a green track the traction would never be as high as usual for Ardent.
For the first time since running the AE car I had to differ from my usual set up to find any sort of traction.
Main changes were AE springs and very laid down dampers.
After practise it still wasn't great, but had to go into Q anyway. The only task during the runs we're to make the top 32, to get into the Reedy Style format races. (8 rounds of heads up racing, random grid order, 8 cars each race)
So after an uncomfortable Q I ended up 22nd... Which was a little rubbish as its 11 places lower than where I was this time last year.
There's a few reasons for this I think. Not only with not being used to the tires, but for a reason still unknown exactly, I struggled alot with brakes. I used 2 different ESC's and 2 different motors, but still nothing, which I found strange. There was just no brakes, and with the track having a hairpin at the end of the straight was not ideal.
So as for the Reedy races, the less said the better. Plenty of 3rd's n 5ths it's pure pot luck if u survive the first corner or not.
There were 2 races where I had comfortable leads and promptly three it away, both my fault.
Ended up like 20th overal, really unsatisfied with the whole weekend..
I'm going to take a little time off away from it all now before deciding if I'll go to Poland for ETS rd4...
Ciao
Well this was my first time running on Sorex kicks since I came back racing. And honestly, after running on Ride/Moorespeeds, I hate them. They just feel so plasticky and hard, the wheels are far from round and I general always used to make my car feel like I was driving on ice. This weekend was no exception!
With only 1 round of practise on a green track the traction would never be as high as usual for Ardent.
For the first time since running the AE car I had to differ from my usual set up to find any sort of traction.
Main changes were AE springs and very laid down dampers.
After practise it still wasn't great, but had to go into Q anyway. The only task during the runs we're to make the top 32, to get into the Reedy Style format races. (8 rounds of heads up racing, random grid order, 8 cars each race)
So after an uncomfortable Q I ended up 22nd... Which was a little rubbish as its 11 places lower than where I was this time last year.
There's a few reasons for this I think. Not only with not being used to the tires, but for a reason still unknown exactly, I struggled alot with brakes. I used 2 different ESC's and 2 different motors, but still nothing, which I found strange. There was just no brakes, and with the track having a hairpin at the end of the straight was not ideal.
So as for the Reedy races, the less said the better. Plenty of 3rd's n 5ths it's pure pot luck if u survive the first corner or not.
There were 2 races where I had comfortable leads and promptly three it away, both my fault.
Ended up like 20th overal, really unsatisfied with the whole weekend..
I'm going to take a little time off away from it all now before deciding if I'll go to Poland for ETS rd4...
Ciao
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