Heck!
....just drive it like you stole it, and the diff will take care of itself !!!
Strangely enough for me ( apparently I have a reputation for excessive smearing of rubber across tarmac!!
) I find these F2's remarkably easy to drive and extremely forgiving when you exceed the coefficient of friction mid corner. It was not until I did 3-4 laps of outrageously over driving the Protos that the tyres started to lose grip and one lap treating them gently restored some sanity.
In last nights race ( yes! it should have been 2 races, but Bernie was apparently getting bored with me and pulled my plug I think
) I was throwing the Protos at corners trying to find the absolute limit and even when I thought to myself "aha smartass!! now you have really overdone it this time and you are going to suffer" I was able to persuade the car to stay at least in partial contact with the grey stuff and continue.
The one time that I lost it completely was mid race when I had lost Ron somewhere. He had been hounding me for 9 laps and occasionally he was difficult to see in the mirrors but I knew he was not far away! Then leaving the hairpin at the end of the straight I realised that I had not heard him and could not see him either?? On the run up to the bomb hole I appeared to be clear and free, so I slowed slightly to check pribluda through the final long right hander and managed to just clip the brake marker on the inside because I was not concentrating on my driving. That contact was enough to squirt my car up and onto the grass bank facing in the wrong direction and allow me to realise that I had just squandered a good 5 second lead!!
Fortunately I was able to rejoin the track and just hold 1st spot as we croseed the S/f line and with no apparent damage or woodworm in my car. Ron kept the pressure on right to the flag and we were very evenly matched for speed in the "Wooden Wonder".
Qually for race 2 was exciting and once again Ron showed that he had his Lola BMW going just as quicly as mine, so it was all set for another tight race. Until we approached the bridge on lap 1 and Bernie used his space time continium flux generator to freeze my existence on the apex of the bend and send me to planet IGOR.
Grats to the podium of the 2nd race, it looks like it might have been a great dice to be involved in.
Thanks to Axel for the chance to get to know these cars a little better. My initial impressions are that they are like 65's but smoother and more predictable ( and slightly faster?)