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2010A7 - Silverstone
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Clearly I'm spinning my engine a little higher than Andy, which is something I have not dealt with in setup yet. I'm probably revving too far past peak power on those straights right now.
BTW Anthony, the 'team owner' AJ was hoping for 35 laps, but the 'league admin' AJ was hoping for 40. On my current race setup I can only get maybe 11 decent laps on blues, which is short for 40 laps. Stretching too far at this track is a great recipe to suddenly be in the wall in lots of places. When it lets go, it just goes. For any kind of pace at all, you have to commit hard to a corner, which leaves no margin for snapping free.
Well, now, this is the conundrum. The MRDC "soft" setup starts out the race at maybe 1:06.3 for a good lap and I did a 1:05.9 just before the end after 18 laps on a set of blues. There's no doubt that the firm setup is a little bit quicker, but not so friendly on the tyres.
But if I could even it all out to 1:06 laps with 1 stop, I reckon I'd struggle to beat that on more stops. Sadly however, I seem to get understeer in the middle of the stints which may make that ambition a bit ambitious.
great to see healthy debate on setup...
Foot to the floor motoring here certainly puts fuel use as high as weve ever seen, thank god were not on 3x use. I'm really looking forward to this one despite not being on Antonys pace. Strategy is wide open, 2 stop being the safe bet but with 1 stop and 3 stop being on the table if you can run a good pace.
Tyre temps are good for me but wear is high on the rear. Im guessing that a penalty of running a low rear wing, tyres rather than aero are working the grip harder to keep the arse on track round the fast bends. Our narrow track seems to take a litle less wear but it lacks the extra stability of the wider cars noticibly.
one stop would have been my plan for a 35 lap race but i dont think i can work the tyres long enough for 40.