- Tamiya TRF417 - Kenneth - Laukaa - FinTrack Finnish Championship series - 11.06.2011 -

Second Asphalt National Round 2011

The second summer round of the FinTrack Finnish Championship series took place in Laukaa on a small track in very warm conditions on Saturday June 11th.

To make conditions even trickier the warm early summer period had ensured the track was covered in pollen as well, and to make things even worse (for me) there was no pro-stock class so I would have to run mod, without preparation and testing...

Sure enough, the start of the day was catastrophic... On new tyres in first qualifying the car was decent, as you would expect, but my driving was not. As always when not having run mod for a long time you need a few runs to get used to it. Most were struggling on old tyres though, and maybe the TRF417's more than some. So I made it my mission for the day to get the car to work on old tyres and skipping the chance to run 2 new sets.

Finally, when the day was over, I had won the B-final but more importantly had a car that was really quite good on by then VERY old tyres. And running lap times similar to the winners during the same time of the day, on tyres older than their,s backed up the feeling.

You can see the setup I ended up with below. Not mentioned in the setup sheet is that I removed some screws from the upper deck to get some more flex in the car. Overall I feel the biggest improvements came from that (flex), and running the soft HPI Blue springs. The front gear diff with 500k oil also made it better, as did the long links. But remember that the conditions were fairly unusual.

ETS final Andernach next then, can't wait!
Just need to get a chance to do some proper testing until then.

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