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Ben Lipman Goo Roo SA Soarer TT manual, plus TT track car, plus a spare shell
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Monday, June 08, 2015 - 08:34 pm, by: Ben Lipman(Ben12a)
I spent the day at Wakefield Park. As already announced, I set a couple of new PBs today culminating in a 1:06.66 in the final session of the day.
The day was not without incident, and it got off to a poor start. The pit area has been resurfaced. Where I used to unload the car straight off the trailer is now a little steeper. This meant I drove the rear diffuser straight into the new bitumen. This in turn led to me starting the day in the pits with a mallet and a block of wood straightening out the diffuser. I have been thinking of remaking the diffuser, but I’ll come back to that thought.
I had an off at turn 2 in the morning. If I brake before the kink (T1) I end up accelerating through T2 because I have washed off too much speed. If I drive through the kink, then I drive off the end of the road and into the sand trap. I ended up lightly applying the brakes right at the entry to the kink and carrying them to the apex of T2. I still think this needs work. I also had a spin in the fish hook in the afternoon. This was simply due to overdriving the car.
In the last session, straight after the PB I was on another fast lap. There was an almighty bang and then the unmistakable noise of something dragging on the ground. Everything felt OK, except for the noise. I headed into the pits to have a look. Under the car I found my rear muffler dragging on the ground. Strangely nothing had broken; it had simply managed to unhook itself from the OEM hangers. Unfortunately, for the second event in a row 2km of Wakefield’s finest bitumen ground down part of my car. The exhaust section immediately before the muffler is paper thin.
So remember how I was thinking it is time to update the diffuser? Now that the exhaust needs some repairs, it might be time to investigate a side exit exhaust and full width diffuser, or some other fancy idea. I have 2 weeks holidays coming up…
