New Minimum Weight
Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2012 1:12 pm
New thread to not take away from the positives in the Spec Racer Future thread.
Figure we have 3 years to hash this out, by then we can have several hundred pages of comments
My 2 cents.....
take a new car, new body work, new 50# lighter engine, add in "standard" 200# driver.
Weight plates should be added to equal somewhere between current 1670 and 1670 minus 50. Pick a reasonable number but I do believe it it should be lower than current 1670. (Quick and sloppy Google research say 80th pecentile is somewhere around 200-210#). As your body work gets repaired a few times some of us lighter (180#) pound drivers can remove weight plates.
I agree with Bob Breton. With reasonably clean body work and at 180# I have to add 10-20# of weights to my car (depending on region and scales) to come in at about +-1680 (my target at end of sessions). I've got Chassis #308 so it's been around the track a few times.
Now if you want to keep weight at 1670 after removing 50# from the rear, create a new legal, authorized, and optional weight location up front (depleted uranium floor pan anyone?) to get the cars closer to 50/50. If the heavies make the lights add weight to even it up, the lights will demand a better weight distribution advantage
Figure we have 3 years to hash this out, by then we can have several hundred pages of comments
My 2 cents.....
take a new car, new body work, new 50# lighter engine, add in "standard" 200# driver.
Weight plates should be added to equal somewhere between current 1670 and 1670 minus 50. Pick a reasonable number but I do believe it it should be lower than current 1670. (Quick and sloppy Google research say 80th pecentile is somewhere around 200-210#). As your body work gets repaired a few times some of us lighter (180#) pound drivers can remove weight plates.
I agree with Bob Breton. With reasonably clean body work and at 180# I have to add 10-20# of weights to my car (depending on region and scales) to come in at about +-1680 (my target at end of sessions). I've got Chassis #308 so it's been around the track a few times.
Now if you want to keep weight at 1670 after removing 50# from the rear, create a new legal, authorized, and optional weight location up front (depleted uranium floor pan anyone?) to get the cars closer to 50/50. If the heavies make the lights add weight to even it up, the lights will demand a better weight distribution advantage