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Post by rdzoni on Jun 21, 2009 15:50:11 GMT -6
Setting the stage...won the pack & fastest of the pack, won the district and lost the fastest by frog hair....we then went to regionals and this is where it gets weird. The two cars we beat at district both beat us regionals  ? I mean help me understand how we smoked both of these cars at district and they beat us at regional. Besides the obvious of "they worked on their car during the delay time" is that I'm thinking because we were a #1 seed we had to race faster cars. I will say the one car we lost to had wheels that you could see your self in and the other was about as thin as paper. I understand those but losing to the two we smoked? ? Your thoughts? |
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Post by fatdaddy on Jun 21, 2009 23:26:11 GMT -6
They changed to lighter wheels? They reprepped the wheels they had? Better burnished graphite? It could be any of 1000 things. Did you relube before regionals? How did they beat you, off the line, or in the flat? Hopefully you can get the answers you are looking for here!
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Post by the woodbutcher on Aug 21, 2009 9:15:07 GMT -6
What about the track? Same track or different? Are you able to work on the cars between these meets? They could have done something as simple as an adjustment to the alignment. Did you talk to them after the race about how you prepared the cars?
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khouse
Head in the Pine
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Post by khouse on Aug 21, 2009 14:06:16 GMT -6
Maybe they went from strait runners to rail riders? Who knows? But either you missed the lite wheels the first time or they added them. That would make a huge difference off the line! The very first cars I built I took 4th and 7th place locally. I wondered why the other cars were so much faster than mine? So a search on the internet told me why. I then raced the same cars with more axle and hub prep, canted the rears and made a 3 wheel rail rider out of them. No new parts were used. No one at this local race is close to my times. I know they have the internet but I guess they haven't searched? Tell us how you have aligned all 4 wheels? What does your car weigh? Where is your COM? What axle, wheel and hub prep do you do? What is your wheel base? We need a lot of info to help you get more speed.
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psycaz
Addicted to Speed
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Post by psycaz on Aug 22, 2009 20:28:25 GMT -6
If you give us more information about your car and the race conditions - both races, we might be able to help you narrow it down. TRack types, length, rules differences. Those types of things.
What changes, if any, did you make to your car in between races? Did your car seem slower in the last race or theirs faster? Just sking as sometimes you can get graphite to cake in the hub and slow a car down. Done it enough to know it happens.
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Post by rdzoni on Nov 12, 2009 19:05:10 GMT -6
If you guys are still following this thread the local track was a plastic one, the council was an aluminum and 8' longer. My wheels were lathed, polished, coned, hubbed, etc everything! Lubed and primed to the hilt! The two cars we beat (handily) on the local level beat us on the council level by some unknown reason. A lot of the cars on the aluminum track appeared to "quit running" the last 8' (which I thought was weird). Our car finsihed though. I can't figure out how to attach a photo of our car. Will try shortly.
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? I mean help me understand how we smoked both of these cars at district and they beat us at regional. Besides the obvious of "they worked on their car during the delay time" is that I'm thinking because we were a #1 seed we had to race faster cars.
