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Permalink Reply by DefLefty on June 13, 2010 at 5:57pm

Scanner replay may not be approved by the 'Don't ask, don't tell' crowd.

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Permalink Reply by TOG on June 13, 2010 at 6:00pm

just the racing parts will be replayed...lol.....

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Permalink Reply by Keith Stone on June 13, 2010 at 6:05pm

33rd. .not good..

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Permalink Reply by MartyP on June 13, 2010 at 6:19pm

Ole reliable chassis still needs a bit of tweaking.

Lets set our sights high for next week

Top five or bust!!

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on June 13, 2010 at 7:58pm

I'm guessing its was weight bias issue today.That would mostly be a set-up issue.
If you have a multi car team, you can test different bias,camber,caster,wedge,springs,sway bars fr/rr,ackerman,toe settings fr/rr.rear camber,steer box ratio,roll centers fr/rr,ride height,ect. All these things plus other things(any one of them) that is off,can negatively skew your results just in single car practice.Much less racing it.
Did you all hear Denny Hamlin's interview this morning?Goodyear showed up with tires with reduced stagger (.9in) ,so if you set-up the car in the shop for 1.2in of stagger and get .9 it changes wedge,roll centers,spring split,ride heights,ect.
TOG, I would like to know what things they were working on at VR to get side bite?
On to Sears

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on June 13, 2010 at 8:32pm

Oh don't forget bump steer and god forbid a component rub and thats mostly front end stuff.!

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on June 13, 2010 at 9:58pm

On to shocks, fronts are a science of their own.Bump stops are a different issue. Let's talk about rear shocks.
In my opinion,last week Ted miss the show because one or both of the rear shocks had a couple of sweeps to much rebound dampening.
Example- Ted hit the 'patch' on entry to turn three ( the 'patch' may have a smoother edge on some portion of the 'patch' ) the car was unsettled when Ted got back to the gas.The rear tire/s weren't under it yet.Ted get slideways as he got bad to the gas.
Or the rear shock/s had to much high speed compression dampening,causing the rear of the car to buck.
I'm still think'n to much rebound. I don't like a ton of rebound.
Remember shocks are a timing devise,they control the time to takes to transfer weight (static or dynamic )

As you can see any number of things can and will affect a day at the races. And unlike a video game,there is no RESET button!

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Permalink Reply by TOG on June 13, 2010 at 10:24pm

Mike- the upcoming speedfactory.tv episode that centers around VIR testing will showcase some of the things that were being worked on, as well as a detailed interview from Robby about the test. Either the Monday or Friday episode.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on June 13, 2010 at 10:43pm

Thanks,TOG

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Permalink Reply by Charlie on June 13, 2010 at 7:53pm

just wondering, but what happened with the car today? only caught a few laps and with 44 laps to go, robby was running 27th a lap down and noticed that he finished 33rd. didn't know if he had a bad car or problems at the end of the race?

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Permalink Reply by Mike Kenyon on June 13, 2010 at 8:29pm

As memory serves, car started out tight,adjusted,vibration,loose,adjusted back,towards the end got a set of tires that where very,very,very tight.mostly green flag stops,very few cautions (3 maybe)

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Permalink Reply by J.R. Sands on June 13, 2010 at 10:34pm

What I noticed was the lap times and speed, Robby was running some top 10 numbers for a lot of the race.......Great job I think. Finish may not show it but the numbers were there.

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