This was my weirdest race night ever on RD. Entertaining, but weird.
As mentioned above, apparently this Mod car was designed to have as authentic physics as possible, so highly underpowered brakes sound logical considering they originally came from this car::eek:
However, noone expected the brakes to actually break down completely after only a few laps of heavy use.
I do remember a club race using the > 2500kg Mercedes 300SEL which has absolutely inadequate (drum?) brakes, but at least they don't gave up.
R1 was good old fun; I jumped in with zero practice, but after a few laps in P1 and Q1 and some setup tips I thought I would be fine. And I was, as I started from last but a good start, cautious driving while unwittingly being careful on the brakes got me 2nd place in the end
Being warned by what happened to some in race 1, I really nursed my brakes very carefully in R2, only using them when I really needed to but that did not help me much.
Despite taking great care not to overheat them, with one eye at my XD all the time, still my front brakes went one by one after about 10 laps.
The rear brakes survived until halfway the final lap, but without fronts they were not much use anyway. I did make it to the end, but I was 1st to get there only because Eck decided to just go enjoy the view at sunday afternoon speed.
While we were so slow anyways, there was a lot of fun conversation going on on TS, making it an enjoyable racenight in its own unusual way.
Thanks Stuart for this event, and thx all who were there. It was one to remember!
