Yesterday went pretty smoothly other than some dumb first session PCA shenanigans involving me, a Cayman GT4, and a Cayman GT4 Clubsport.
First session was a waste since the Clubsport refused to point me by, but it let me know the Karcepts bar I'd put on full stiff wasn't enough so I slapped in the OEM 2017+ 15mm bar I brought with me and that helped a lot. Played with the knobs a bit and I was pretty happy with the balance for the grip at Podium Club while somehow experiencing zero EPS cutout.
I was able to get a handful of rolling lap matches to my PB in the last session of the day on a set of almost corded RC1s. I was playing it pretty safe all day, especially through the uphill after the esses and the following left hand downhill sweeper, since there was nothing to win.
I had AIM issues, so this is the quickest complete lap from session 3. A pretty casual 1:42:18. I'm pretty happy with that since I left a bunch of time on the table being safe in a few spots and the difference a set of stickers makes over 22HC ones. This is half a second off my PB.
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Originally Posted by Kelse92
Podium Club is a fairly new track/surface right?
This seems to be common on newer surfaces for the cars to be pretty understeer-prone on new surfaces and then ease up over time, we experienced similar here when Eagles Canyon was repaved. Just adjusted setup accordingly per each track.
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It is, yeah. Lessons learned
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Originally Posted by 949 Racing
Everything else being equal, adding grip will tighten a car up a bit. Once we get a car setup working for a particular tire, we tend to just raise or lower the rear to fine tune mid corner balance. Front is typically as low as we can go without bottoming so adjusting rake is our preferred trackside tweak for different tracks or weather conditions.
Pyro readings good?
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This is actually where I had some questions. Based on my pyrometer readings and off track temps it seems like the RC1 needs to be run around 38psi hot. I dunno if you ever ran them on Blub, it just seems high to me but I guess the answer is simply to be a slave to the numbers?
Also, there is a roughly 10-15f delta between the hotter front temps versus rear. Is that about normal, or do you try and get them to be pretty much within 5 degrees or something.
I'm slowly coming to terms with the idea that the car doesn't need to have any drama to be fast, if that makes any sense. It is just smooth and ridiculously easy to drive.