MFactory Project Down Under Takes Class Win & Class Record (NSW CAMS)
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MFactory Project Down Under Takes Class Win & Class Record (NSW CAMS)
Hey guys,
I'm proud to announce that the MFactory Project Down Under takes Class Win and Class Record at Round 2 of the NSW CAMS Supersprint Championships at Wakefield Park (Australia).
Round 2 saw full attendance at Wakefield Park with many different types of cars in all categories. Although the day started with light rain, the sun came out just in time for the start of the event and ended up a beautiful day for driving.
Coming from last year, the car spotted a number of changes including a new TODA B18C engine and a 1/2 cage. Also new this season was a set of Fightex N1 Coilovers.
This is, of course, in addition to our custom MFactory race transmission, oil cooler kit and spherical suspension components which gave us our 2nd Overall spot last year (and our rookie season down under!)
Unfortunately, as we did not have time to practice and setup the car fully yet, we had no choice but to use this competitive round to test. The car hadn't even seen the road until the trip down to Wakefield that day! The car was tuned entirely on the Dyno the day before in TODA Australia's capable hands.
Run 1 came and went without incident, It saw us clocking a 1:11 something on fresh tyres that hadn't even scrubbed in. Decided to go into the 2nd run without changing anything on the car as, having never had the chance to test, we simply didn't know what to change! haha.
Run 2 was again uneventful - We were still trying to learn the car and get the tyres really scrubbed in. In this run, we managed to clock a PB of 1:10.95 - had some handling issues that now needs to be sorted out.
Run 3 was a disaster - Actually, it didn't start off as a disaster. We were lined up against a Porsche 993 Turbo S, with adrenalin pumping. We followed it for the warm up lap and actually kept pace with it as we turned onto the main straight, through Turn 1 and we were right on its butt at Turn 2 and actually outbraked it into turn 3!!! As we got over turn 4, went over the ripple strip, no big deal usually, but somehow the car just kept sliding and couldn't hold it on the track and promptly spun off.
We got back on the track, did a lap and promptly found that we had lost power steering - thinking that we would drop a belt in the off track excursion, we pulled back into the pits only to find the left side of the car covered in oil. The power steering high pressure line had fractured spraying oil all over the wheels which explained our off track excursion earlier. It was unfortunate because we choose to retire from the runs altogether rather than risk going out there, spilling more oil and ruining it for everyone else.
In all, we've only managed to get about 6 "angry" laps - certainly not enough to gather enough information to setup the car fully but hey, thats racing. I'm sure if we were running optimum that day, we would be much closer to the 1.06.79 clocked by the quickest car of the day (an EVO 9). As a consolation though, we still took the Class Win & Class Record for the track
Only 7 more rounds to go
I'm proud to announce that the MFactory Project Down Under takes Class Win and Class Record at Round 2 of the NSW CAMS Supersprint Championships at Wakefield Park (Australia).
Round 2 saw full attendance at Wakefield Park with many different types of cars in all categories. Although the day started with light rain, the sun came out just in time for the start of the event and ended up a beautiful day for driving.
Coming from last year, the car spotted a number of changes including a new TODA B18C engine and a 1/2 cage. Also new this season was a set of Fightex N1 Coilovers.
This is, of course, in addition to our custom MFactory race transmission, oil cooler kit and spherical suspension components which gave us our 2nd Overall spot last year (and our rookie season down under!)
Unfortunately, as we did not have time to practice and setup the car fully yet, we had no choice but to use this competitive round to test. The car hadn't even seen the road until the trip down to Wakefield that day! The car was tuned entirely on the Dyno the day before in TODA Australia's capable hands.
Run 1 came and went without incident, It saw us clocking a 1:11 something on fresh tyres that hadn't even scrubbed in. Decided to go into the 2nd run without changing anything on the car as, having never had the chance to test, we simply didn't know what to change! haha.
Run 2 was again uneventful - We were still trying to learn the car and get the tyres really scrubbed in. In this run, we managed to clock a PB of 1:10.95 - had some handling issues that now needs to be sorted out.
Run 3 was a disaster - Actually, it didn't start off as a disaster. We were lined up against a Porsche 993 Turbo S, with adrenalin pumping. We followed it for the warm up lap and actually kept pace with it as we turned onto the main straight, through Turn 1 and we were right on its butt at Turn 2 and actually outbraked it into turn 3!!! As we got over turn 4, went over the ripple strip, no big deal usually, but somehow the car just kept sliding and couldn't hold it on the track and promptly spun off.
We got back on the track, did a lap and promptly found that we had lost power steering - thinking that we would drop a belt in the off track excursion, we pulled back into the pits only to find the left side of the car covered in oil. The power steering high pressure line had fractured spraying oil all over the wheels which explained our off track excursion earlier. It was unfortunate because we choose to retire from the runs altogether rather than risk going out there, spilling more oil and ruining it for everyone else.
In all, we've only managed to get about 6 "angry" laps - certainly not enough to gather enough information to setup the car fully but hey, thats racing. I'm sure if we were running optimum that day, we would be much closer to the 1.06.79 clocked by the quickest car of the day (an EVO 9). As a consolation though, we still took the Class Win & Class Record for the track
Only 7 more rounds to go
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