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Post by neverender158 on Jan 26, 2017 7:31:24 GMT -8
This was my first ever Oval race so I was in the dark on setups. My front right would smoke on every turn no matter how slow I was taking the turn. I had 6% left on my front right in race 3 and I got new tires on lap 32 or so. I have no idea how Chris, Jeff or Dale lasted 75 laps on one set of tires and ran faster laps than me all race long. It was fun and a learning experience for me.
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Post by helios16v on Jan 26, 2017 8:33:40 GMT -8
How the hell some of you made the tires last 70 laps I have no idea. Just one tire, in fact, was the problem. Anyway, I expected to struggle with this combo, so I struggled...lol. Great night for Jeff, driving so well, and Chris, great win on the longer race!! Happy for you.  Thanks. I got my bad luck out of the way in the first race. That wreck in the second race sucked...it was shaping up to be an excellent multi-car battle between the 2 of us, Jeff, and Dale. I had to fight the urge to push hard early on. The temptation to run down and fight the guy in front was strong...but I knew I had to try to conserve the car & tires (particularly that RF) if I was going to play my long game right. I had no idea if the car was actually going to make it the full 75 laps...but it felt fine after 50 laps running a steady low 21 so I figured I'd try. The car was definitely getting a bit looser in the final 15-20 laps...and my lap times fell back to mid-high 21s as a result. I was watching the gap back to Jeff and just trying to maintain it...hoping to save what I could of the car in case Angelo ran us all down. The trick for me was to roll out of the throttle early, and drag the brake into the corner. The hardest part was avoiding going straight to the throttle once the car got to the bottom, letting the car roll through the mid corner at neutral throttle, then easing back into the gas once the corner started opening up. That was my method anyways to try to reduce the load on that RF. I actually enjoyed that quite a bit more than I was expecting too last night. Ovals are totally different when you know the guy around you is going to race you clean. I'd like to thank all of you for that. |
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Post by F1Fan07 on Jan 26, 2017 9:47:18 GMT -8
I've got 1000's of testing laps in these cars but always with full-course yellows that let the tires cool and/or make a stop for fresh tires. I'd never pushed a single set of tires like that. It worked out well though around lap 50, I had a bad 10 laps where the tires were too hot and eventually I had to stop fighting for position.
I think if that was a 100 lap race, I'd still have tried to not pit but Angelo would've caught and passed us.
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Post by Jim T on Jan 26, 2017 16:14:47 GMT -8
Yes agreed Angelo. I was fighting just to find speed a day or two before the race. I never had time to find the balance in the set up needed for the longer run. Also I will admit that I should have known that you guys would push it on tires instead of pitting. Fun series and I hope we do another similar one. There's tons of stuff we have not tried. Like the Semi trucks.
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