fredag, juni 09, 2006

Rudskogen 3-4 june


The weekend started with everything beeing hectic.
Worked on the car until late friday evening, before setting course for the racetrack.
Tried for 2 days to improve on the braking system, as I discovered on testing at Karlskoga that the brakes where very ineffective.
Changed everything.......
On first practice at Rudskogen on saturday, SURPRISE!!!! no brakes again.
Tried to bleed some more, but no help.
Decided to run with it anyway, and went for timepractice wich wasn't too bad.
Then it turns out the organisers have messed it up, and we have to run a new timepractice, as they cancelled the previous one.
During this practice I noticed the oil pressure started to flutter, and a knocking noise came from the engine.
Aborted the run and went back into the pits.
Turned out that the connecting rod bearings where gone, so that's it for this weekend.
Only positive experience this weekend is that I have improved my laptimes by more than 2 seconds compared to last year.
So I guess the work I have put into the suspension system seem to have worked.
Time to get working on fixing the engine for next race, wich will be 24-25 june on Våler raceway.
Until then.......;-)