http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2007/10/20/test-day/ The ramblings of a car crazy tech geek Sat, 11 Feb 2012 18:19:45 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2007/10/20/test-day/comment-page-1/#comment-5102 Race review - Saturday pre-race setup (by The Racing Geek) Tue, 06 Nov 2007 06:36:29 +0000 http://www.rahulnair.net/blog/2007/10/20/test-day/#comment-5102 [...] As I had mentioned before, we had some tire wear issues on during our Friday test session. The banked turns were enough lateral load (sustained 1.3 G) on the car that we were blistering the outer edge of our right front tire. While raising the tire pressures did help, there was no way that our tires would last an entire race with such uneven wear. The first thing we did was call pretty much every the tire shop in the Bay Area to find one that stocked Falken Azenis and was open early on Saturday. Eventually we found a place in Milpitas that opened at 8am and Gabe did an emergency tire run to pick up four tires. [...] [...] As I had mentioned before, we had some tire wear issues on during our Friday test session. The banked turns were enough lateral load (sustained 1.3 G) on the car that we were blistering the outer edge of our right front tire. While raising the tire pressures did help, there was no way that our tires would last an entire race with such uneven wear. The first thing we did was call pretty much every the tire shop in the Bay Area to find one that stocked Falken Azenis and was open early on Saturday. Eventually we found a place in Milpitas that opened at 8am and Gabe did an emergency tire run to pick up four tires. [...]

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