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FUBAR...

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WTF, it is one sad story after another.................. :sad:

 

When one considers how seemingly poised they were at the end of last year and at Daytona this year to have a great season, it truly is....

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Same old "throwing belts" story and a crash. Think they have the Bosch ECU now, so they can't blame the ECU anymore...



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Basically been like watching an ongoing train wreck sense Homestead.....

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Lime Rock wrap up

Grand-Am Memorial Day 2010 Saturday-0

This picture kind of tells you how our day went . . .

196 . . . Dicky was driving the 196 and spun the SC belt off at turn one with 6th to 3rd shift. The belt drive is the Achilles heel of the R53 and Dicky made the fatal error. We replaced the belt, Owen got in the car, he turned the fastest race lap and the belt came off again. We knew it would not last because the idler pulley was damaged after the 1st incident.

197 You saw the evidence above . . . what else is there to be said ? VJ was rearended and sent into the wall. He could have had a top 5.

198 was withdrawn before practice. We have been scrambling for the last two weeks to get it ready after the fire at Barber. The car was in INDY on the dyno with the Bosch Engineers. There was a problem with the new engine harness that delayed the process for two days . . . therefore, no a show.

Now the good news............

The 197 is already fixed and ready for Watkins Glen this weekend.
The 196 is also fixed and ready to go.
The 198 is now in transit to Watkins and (fingers crossed) should be race ready.

Next Saturday . . .

 

The 198 will debut the Bosch at Watkins Glen this coming weekend. The 196 and 197 are still running the stock ECU until after Mid Ohio.

Looking forward to good things.

Randy

 

Why do you think they have been throwing belts since Daytona/Homestead Randy? Weren't throwing them last year were you?

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I wish I had a simple answer for that . . . I don't. We've thrown three belts this year . . . Sarah at Miami and VIR . . . now Dicky at Lime Rock. In all cases they were due to improper downshifts. The data is on the AIM dash and we can see where the mistakes happened. Why the motors are more sensitive to these mistakes this year is puzzling.

It's a work in progress . . . we use the best belt that money can buy and the tensioner's are modified and strengthened. Nothing new here . . .

At this point, we need to have better prerace driver instuctions. Some driver's have NEVER thrown a belt . . . ie: Owen, Randy. We need to find out why and pass that knowledge to the others.

Randy

 

Aren't you running a different dampener?

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Damn Randy, this has got to turn around soon.......:mad2:

 

6th to 3rd... Downshift Mechanical over rev? Lucky it was just the belt it tossed, not a rod.

 

Looks like you may get a little coverage in the upcoming AWOL episode. This is just a preview of the second episode, but the MINI appears for a second around 1:20.

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Amen

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