Tim’s 2023 Season
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Oneball
CCCUK Member
Brands Hatch GP
Got there just after lunch on Friday and dropped the car in the paddock.
Race day, Saturday morning and qualifying. It’s a 2 driver 40 min race so we both did 10 mins of qualifying. My half was mainly spent behind the safety car. The car turns in a lot better than last time after finding the front tracking was miles out. But it then falls over itself and understeer appears. We qualified 43rd from 46. It’s a shared grid with the Calm Porsche Trophy. Lots of little Boxsters flying around.
Quali might have been hot and sunny but 10 mins before the race it started peeing it down. And the wipers aren’t working again!! Despite a new motor!! We do two green flag laps and we’re off.
I loose two places to a couple of 924s and and am now last. The understeer is pretty dire in the wet and turn 4 would be quicker to get out and walk. But I’m having a pretty good battle with a Boxster. Various places gained as others spin. And it’s time for driver change. I fluff it and loose 10 secs in the pit stop which can’t quite be made back and we finish 36th just 1 second behind the Boxster I’d been battling with before the stop.
Fortunately it stops raining long enough to pack up in the dry.
And home via the pub for dinner.
Got there just after lunch on Friday and dropped the car in the paddock.
Race day, Saturday morning and qualifying. It’s a 2 driver 40 min race so we both did 10 mins of qualifying. My half was mainly spent behind the safety car. The car turns in a lot better than last time after finding the front tracking was miles out. But it then falls over itself and understeer appears. We qualified 43rd from 46. It’s a shared grid with the Calm Porsche Trophy. Lots of little Boxsters flying around.
Quali might have been hot and sunny but 10 mins before the race it started peeing it down. And the wipers aren’t working again!! Despite a new motor!! We do two green flag laps and we’re off.
I loose two places to a couple of 924s and and am now last. The understeer is pretty dire in the wet and turn 4 would be quicker to get out and walk. But I’m having a pretty good battle with a Boxster. Various places gained as others spin. And it’s time for driver change. I fluff it and loose 10 secs in the pit stop which can’t quite be made back and we finish 36th just 1 second behind the Boxster I’d been battling with before the stop.
Fortunately it stops raining long enough to pack up in the dry.
And home via the pub for dinner.
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Oneball
CCCUK Member
Next race will be at Oulton Park for the US Autoshow on Sat 19th August.
www.oultonpark.co.uk
Hopefully I’ll have made some suspension changes to reduce the understeer and have succumbed to fitting power steering.
U.S. AutoShow @ Oulton Park August 2023
Hopefully I’ll have made some suspension changes to reduce the understeer and have succumbed to fitting power steering.
Forrest Gump
CCCUK regional rep
What changes to suspension are you thinking?
Oneball
CCCUK Member
More -ve camber and more caster. Which will make the steering even heavier.
Forrest Gump
CCCUK regional rep
I always say it….the C3 likes much more caster than GM designed it with. Problem is you can’t get with the stock A-arms though.
Have you got a rear anti-roll bar?
Have you got a rear anti-roll bar?
Forrest Gump
CCCUK regional rep
I meant to say "can't get much" caster with the stock arms, and the resulting uneven shim stacks don't look too pretty. I'm on the maximum recommended 0.4" difference front to back shim stack, and the car benefits greatly from that. I've seen a mod to elongate the holes in the spindle, but I'm not sure I like the idea of doing that.
Forrest Gump
CCCUK regional rep
1/2 deg neg front and rear. Zero front toe.
Mr. Cricket
Committee Member
Good luck Tim, gutted I have to be at Passion for Power just down the road 
