As on the XB2, we got back to racing on different handout tires, so some setup adjustments had to be made. As the carpet in Zolder was only one race old, the traction at the beginning was quite high, but slowly went down throughout the two days of racing.

The feeling was very similar to the XB2, so after the first practice, I felt the car had way too much steering and the rear end was too stuck. I put an extra layer of CA glue on the front tires to calm the front end down, and moved a shim on the rear arm to the front to make the rear wheelbase longer in order to more rear end stability. Also, as the layout provided not so many jumps, but two where the braking point was crucial, I added 10% maximum brake on my Elceram ESC, to be able to time the brake points more strongly and not loose time.

As the track layout was quite open, I added a few degrees of turbo timing to get more top speed, and also went up with PWM drive frequency from 9 kHz to 9.5 kHz to make the bottom end smoother on this layout, to improve the lifetime of the tires a little bit. I also decided to remove the front wing, to make the front end less reactive on such high speed track, as the steering was not so crucial.

Generally talking, the new tires always provided more steering, therefore to compensate the feeling on used tires, I always added 2% of steering end points, to make the car steer more in slow corners.
All of these changes helped me stay very close with Jorn during the whole event and the final runs. The potential was big in the car, as I managed to lead A2 for a long time, before an unfortunate bad luck with lapped car and very unlucky technical issues in A3. Nevertheless, I was very happy with the speed and the improvements made since the EOS on these tires. We can never stop improving!