Inde 2018 (Page 2 of 2)

To be exact, (because I was on my phone earlier) I typed all the missing numbers into an excel spreadsheet which handily counted them for me.

I stole the basics of the idea from somebody here (count the missing numbers).

I suspect 5 of the entries of being front-engined Porsches (counting yours and mine).

If you go to your (or potentially "a") car entry, you can edit your number. The taken numbers are missing from the list (from 1-999). Your methodology to figure out which ones are missing is up to you.

Never driven the track before. An empty course will suit me just fine.

I've never been to Inde. What about the track makes it a tire killer? Is it the track surface or composition? Or the track design/course layout?

Roebling Road was paved with some composition that had sea shells in it. It was hard on tires. A long section of the track is constant cornering. We had a hard time getting through sprint races there. Not sure what endurance racers did. I was a Kumho driver at the time, and we did our tire tests there. If you could survive there, you could survive anywhere...except maybe Inde, I guess.

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I suspect (with my limited experience) that it's a combination of design and composition/surface... but probably surface finish has a lot to do with it. I haven't wandered the course when cold or touched the track with my fingers, but the difference in tire wear from say, Buttonwillow, is significant.

Oh yeah... I think I had power brakes at inde, not so much at buttonwillow.

It's interesting to hear what factors might contribute to such extreme wear. As I mentioned, tire issues at Roebling were due to the track surface. Inde may be more like Lime Rock Park.

I would set up my cars with some stagger at Lime Rock, which only has one slow left-hander. The rest of the track is faster right-handers...which may be similar to Inde. And again, I don't know Inde at all. But it sounds like an interesting challenge...to try to minimize tire wear through better car set up. I would alter the alignment to preserve the tires at Lime Rock, as it was possible to chew up a LF tire in a 30-lap race.

So, I would dial in max neg camber in the LF (I was limited to -2.4 degrees) and zero camber in the RF. That would make the car turn in poorly and understeer through the left-hander, but I was faster in the right-handers, and consistently so over the course of a race, that the left-hander was a non-factor.

When the Runoffs were at Mid-Ohio, I would do something similar, not b/c of tire wear concerns but b/c the fastest turns were left-handers and the slower turns were right handers. I prefer a little understeer in fast corners and a little oversteer in slower corners. So, I would align the car accordingly.

Curious to hear how the long course treats tires...

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Well, I never got to find out how the tire wear thing worked out. Blowing up the motor 3 hours into Sat will do it

How did everyone else fare?
Any clues on the winners?

The full course was awesome!!! Really a great circuit. Technical, and fast, with a ton of great flow and elevation change.

I hated the short course, and didn't know what to expect this weekend, but when our car was running it was an absolute blast.

I really hope we go back and do the same course next year.