Iain's 20XE Trackday Nova

[Iain]

If its like the black one they do its about £3.50 with a trade card!

[Iain]

Cadwell Park today! Awesome circuit and very good value for money!



Camped over with 'Nova Ian' and a few other people last night, met up with some other mates this morning and set up a far too professional looking tented area:



Noise test, flew through it with static 4500rpm test coming in at 90dB!

I did some front ARB testing during the morning sessions, a few sessions with, then without, then with again. ARB is staying its so much more planted with it on. Corners much more level and is less prone to understeer resulting in me having to give it some uber lift off oversteer to get it to go where I needed it to go.



Also got a passenger ride in this Radical who we went with, utterly mental machine!



Here's a few laps recorded from the onboard camera:



So an overall success, apart from someone throwing up in the passenger seat half way round a quick lap, the passenger seat's gonna stink for weeks

[peester]

awesome stuff, as always. Indeed like a small race team now .

[Harvey]

Awesome stuff.

[Adam]

So an overall success, apart from someone throwing up in the passenger seat half way round a quick lap, the passenger seat's gonna stink for weeks

Lmao, it must go well then.

Good stuff Iain, im jealous at how much use you are getting out of this.

[Benn]

Really nice track, awesome driving too dude. Car stays nice and level.

[scott.parker]

Nice bit of playing with/without ARB, good idea, but if your getting induced over steer due to it, then to get more cornering grip would it mean making the rear a softer now to compensate for the extra grip up front and allow that area as it's lighter etc to have the squat and give so it's less twitchy or on the brake off point?

Scott

[Iain]

Yeah ideal place to test it out, did two sessions without the ARB and it felt a lot more unstable in the sweeping corners so I much preferred it with. TBH I was inducing a lot of the oversteer myself just for fun! During the afternoon I ramped up the damping and it felt oversteery when induced (in order to point it where I wanted it go, for example through the chicanes) but wouldn't snap out on me if I didn't want it to.

Just for interest/entertainment, I was unsettling the car slightly mid corner while stuck behind an MX5, this was with NO ARB fitted and it was very easy to get out of shape:

[Mike]

Out of shape MX5 is out of shape

[scott.parker]

well controlled mr MX5