Preventing nose duct closure
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OK, so I've closed up my first radiator duct, resulting in a DNF, at the Cat Majors (Road America) on Sunday. Maybe that makes me part of the club, but I was none too pleased, especially given the late start time and the long drive home. And no, it wasn't bump drafting. Video below:
https://youtu.be/TXmsVzGTFu4
Shame on me for not checking my temp gauge until after I got shoved off the road a bit later, which maybe would have meant I pitted and lost 30 seconds, instead of DNF, but either way the race was done for me.
So here's my question... why, in 30 years, hasn't the SRF community come up with a solution? I can think of several that would be fairly trivial to implement. As a newbie in the class, it seems like an odd "design feature", that minor contact can DNF you (or at least ruin your race).
https://youtu.be/TXmsVzGTFu4
Shame on me for not checking my temp gauge until after I got shoved off the road a bit later, which maybe would have meant I pitted and lost 30 seconds, instead of DNF, but either way the race was done for me.
So here's my question... why, in 30 years, hasn't the SRF community come up with a solution? I can think of several that would be fairly trivial to implement. As a newbie in the class, it seems like an odd "design feature", that minor contact can DNF you (or at least ruin your race).