captdistraction
GrumpyRacer
As some of you know, I work in the Pirelli World Challenge as a mechanic / telemetry data analyst / chassis setup tech (Gopher Generalist). I work for the #01 RS Werkes Audi TTRS driven by Don Istook (I know, not a Boss 302R or S team, for shame). We've always been towards the back of the pack with this car as its been under development for the last year, but we've finally made some strides to work our way up! This weekend we were able to outpace most of the mustangs, and even one of the astons in qualifying, and despite a technical foul (late to grid!) and last place start for race1, we finished 16th in class!
For race2 on Sunday at Mud-Ohio, we started 16th, had a fantastic start, but our newfound speed was countered by some sheared mounts (I believe we may have sheared one mount on the start, and then lost the dogbone about 2/3 into the race). This is sidelining the team until Houston on Oct 4-6th, but we plan to bounce back from this.
I do have some video to share from our race start on Race2 (with data courtesy of Autosport Lab's RaceCapture/Pro, a very powerful low cost datalogging/real time telemetry system we've been working with):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poZvGmiRcl4[/youtube]
We had some good battles with the mustangs in the TTRS, especially Alec Udell and whoever was in the whodat/green car.
Unfortunately still a lot of work for me to do. The car has some serious turn-in snap oversteer followed by washout push, and I'm just not enough of a chassis engineer to diagnose it all out besides to ask the driver to ease up on his inputs a bit.
For race2 on Sunday at Mud-Ohio, we started 16th, had a fantastic start, but our newfound speed was countered by some sheared mounts (I believe we may have sheared one mount on the start, and then lost the dogbone about 2/3 into the race). This is sidelining the team until Houston on Oct 4-6th, but we plan to bounce back from this.
I do have some video to share from our race start on Race2 (with data courtesy of Autosport Lab's RaceCapture/Pro, a very powerful low cost datalogging/real time telemetry system we've been working with):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poZvGmiRcl4[/youtube]
We had some good battles with the mustangs in the TTRS, especially Alec Udell and whoever was in the whodat/green car.
Unfortunately still a lot of work for me to do. The car has some serious turn-in snap oversteer followed by washout push, and I'm just not enough of a chassis engineer to diagnose it all out besides to ask the driver to ease up on his inputs a bit.