Always liked the max5 championship. What's the quick spec of the cars? How much more power do the mk3s have?
Yeah, it's cheap, fun and fair - ideal club racing IMO. All the cars have the same Gaz shocks, Federal RSR-595 tyres (some of us have 2 sets, one with more tread, but most people just have one set), TD wheels, standard brakes (pads are free), power mods allowed are head skim and exhaust (standard cams, bottom end, vernier pulleys, airbox, flywheel), minimum weight of 970kg with driver, standard wishbones and maximum camber settings - all of which means you can't spend megabucks on trying to make the car faster.
All the Mk1s (should) run a maximum of 130bhp at the fly on an 'optimistic' rolling road (most of the cars are checked at least once a year on exactly the same setup owned by one of the guys who races with us), with the quickest Mk3s pushing out more like 170-180 I think.
Do you not find Mallory a bit of a bore, I have never been In person but it seem's such a prosession in lower powered cars, there isn't really any corner as such, it looks like everything upto 250bhp is just foot to floor everywhere??? Obviously it looked like you had loads of fun there in the wet sliding it about.
As Tony said, it's a great track. I'll elaborate though
The reason it's so fun is that it's short so the cars are packed in tightly (you'll never do more than a few laps without coming across another car) and it's all about carrying corner speed. Gerrards about 20% of the track and is a 'proper' corner, carry 2mph more through there with your arse twitching, the car bouncing around and the back end hanging out and you're guaranteed half a second faster lap time. Check out 7:35 in Race 2 for an example:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=r_RMeBB657A#t=455s
I agree that it looks crap as a map and usually not that engaging on videos, but it really is fun.
Talking rubbish. It's great.
Good going Adam, hanging on around the outside of Gerrards in the wet
Cheers dude, the outside was definitely grippiest though. Had about 4 laps in quali to learn the wet lines (first ~75% was dry then it peed down), quite a few people went in cos it got slippy but I knew by staying out to find the grip it would help for the races.
the right place to be
.....loads more grip in the wet there
was some nice driving , good to see someone putting a car in the right place imho in the wet ....
Thanks. The outside is definitely the place to be (if you avoid puddles, haha).
Love these vids, keep them coming
Cheers man!
