Sunday, May 20, 2007

TimeAttack...


As expected, trouble was waiting anywhere I went. First it was chaos and lack of information from organizers, so it fucked up my mood :(.

And the problems - for some reason right front brake caliper bracked started to flex when hot (bad contact area with the strut?). When I brake, caliper touches the wheel and gives "nice" ding ding noise. Second - gearbox mounts gave their last... Engine and gearbox started to move and loosening exaust pipe fittings. After that exaust pipe was riding on the rear inner CV joint, givin more "ding ding" noise. After two stops to check it, I've decided, that it's not critical, and I need to complete at least one round. Pushed a bit, and at the end of the straight boost hose blew. So needed to "rest" half an hour to fix it. Not very comfortable in some wet clay-like ground with racing boots and the cars going into braking point at about 150-190km/h. After this I finnaly gave up "racing" and joined the spectators.

This picture I'm still driving my favourite turn (old oak's turn). For some reason it fits my car well. I always really enjoyed this part of the track.

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