TAGELE Sprint - Race reports, chat etc.

[Myles (Mr Fox)]

well what a day. I was expecting a pretty good race but noooooooooo not for me. Race one had a spin, I had never spun out in all the practice so I dont know why, messed up some other guys went I couldn't stay low on the track, very sorry guys.
Race 2 When I pitted my fuel settings were wrong and it would not let me fix it so not enough fuel, then got slammed into wall, had to pit again for fuel so I said heck with it and clicked out. Very disappointing day sorry to all I messed up.

Bad luck Tim.

A number of us remarked that the grip in Qualy seemed different to practice (it should carry forward) and we were experiencing more understeer for no particular reason. We also think we noticed that the car balance changes quite a bit with fuel load - high fuel seems better than low (maybe that’s why we felt the Qualy grip had changed….)

I might take a look at the car physics later - the original BMW M1 mod (that we have extensively developed for next years leagues) had a kerazy ‘bug’ in that the centre of gravity of the fuel in the tank could fall below the floor of the car (even under the track!) due to sloppy conversion/modding. Something similar might be at work here in low fuel situations.