[Tamar]

Posted 01 April 2019 - 02:45 PM
The Road to Le Mans 1/32: 5 days and counting 
 

Yesterday we had an 8 hr marathon session in Best. Not that we drove for 8hrs..unfortunately no. The 3 Dutchies (Lennard, Marc & yourstruely) started work @ 14:30 to get the
Mk2-A 2018 Ford ready for its first shakedown. 19,5 man hours later (6,5hrs x 3= 19,5 hrs in total) the 2018 liveried car ran its first laps alongside the 2017 MK2 Ford on the Suzuka track.
And here's were all the testing, development and preparations of the past 8 week payed off. The MK2-A was stable, smooth and fast straight out of the "box".
So we now have two set-up's to choose from: the Mk2 2017 car with a 1mm offset and the Mk2-A 2018 car with a 0,75 offset.



Does that mean that both cars are finished...No, bodies need to be reinforced. Got some minor paint touch ups to do and the SMD led lights still need to be installed in the bodies
The latter is most likely to become a Friday morning job, and you can expect us to add the last decals on Saturday... just before concourse 

But we've made serious progress yesterday, so I confident that we'll be able to hit the ground running when the track opens @ Henley on Friday 12:30


to be continued

With kind regards
Tamar