Just got back from the SIC race and had a great weekend. Although only two guys had enough points to claim the championship we had a good field of ITS cars:
Four Miatas, TR8, 280Z, two Mustangs, RX7s, Integra, and I'm probably missing something else in there. Kip, Chuck, Jeff Y, and Ron M had a good race upfront in ITS with some low 22s being the norm for that group of cars. They were fast, clean, and ran a tight nose to tail race. Chuck Hines drove a smart and clean race to claim the SARRC points title, congratulations to Chuck, while Jeff Y and Ron M tried hard to run him down. I botched my start and then got held in one lap by some traffic, so I wasn't close enough to them to give much chase. That and being slower than those fellows, I managed to end up in in fifth in the Mustang and Jeff G finished either sixth or seventh with his.
The video is a bit washed out due to an improper metering setup with the camera. But it sort of works.
http://youtu.be/zZXkI8zQb6Q?t=2m24s
I enjoyed the track and driving the car there. I believe Jeff Y said my best time was a 1:22.7 and I think I can better than by a few tenths for sure with driver and we've got some ideas of what to change with the car setup to improve it as well. Overall the car is still very predictable fairly easy on the driver.
Off to VIR in two weeks and after that maybe the ARRC.
Just an FYI, according to the Ford guys at the PRI show, the amount of downforce for the SN95 rear wing is exactly what the wing weighs ... about 10 lbs.
I think we're too slow for downforce anyhow, at least at that size of a wing. I was wondering if it might detach the airflow from the car as that is what spoliers do, but, technically this piece has a gap between the body and the plane surface so it is constructed as a wing and probably won't do that. In the end we didn't have time to do the experiments so it is coming off my car and headed back to the parts bin.