Finally did my first race with the TRF417 V5 as summer has arrived up here in Finland too.
This race was the first outdoor national round, round 5 in the 7 round national championship with the first 4 held indoors on carpet during the winter. The track was Kuusankoski, the only decent asphalt track in Finland and one where I have done most of my testing during the last few summers so even if I had not done any testing with the V5 I was pretty sure the car and setup would be ok.
I set up my car according to the best setup I tested here last year with the 417X (can be found in a previous post). The difference being that last year I run modified while this year I run pro-stock (which was not run last summer), and I must say as usual I enjoy pro-stock a lot more. The first run was not good though, but after that I switched to softer diffs front & rear (same as I found best last year on this track) and after that the car was really good. I made a few further changes during the day and you can find the final setup below.
