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Posted by Bart_Banaan [ 2007/10/5 10:00:00 ] reads 324
The first impressions from Roelof in Argentinia
Roelof arrived in Córdoba , Argentinia after a long trip from Europe. Timely Roelof and Fedor arrived at the Dutch airport Schiphol and although they had about 10Kg too much lugage, there was no problem to check in. After a nice beverage at the gate they could board the plane and toke of for Madrid, Spain. Arrived in Madrid Roelof and Fedor had to travel with a city-train to reach the next plane which toke them across the Atlantic ocean to Santiago de Chile; a flight of more then 13 hours.
In the airplane a nice piece of pasta was served and after a nice movie the light went out. Because Roelof is not so small and the space in a airplane seat is limited, it was hard to get some sleep. But Roelof's multimedia systeem and some nice '80's tunes made the night bareable, although one hour of sleep was too little.
After this long flight Roelof and Fedor arrived in Santiago de Chile were they could transfer to an earlier airplane to Córdoba, Argentina were they arrived 2 hours later.
Arrived in the Holiday Inn hotel they first did some shopping in a super-mega-mega-mega supermarket across the hotel, and after that they went to sleep after 40hours of not seeing a normal bed.
The next day Roelof and Fedor arrived very relaxed at the track. The track itselve is a sort of large parking area from a convention center were a cornerpart is used for the quit large racing track.
The first frequency controlled practises were five sessions of each 8 minutes, and they passed in a blink.
In the first session a exhaust spring broke, so Roelof had to end the session.
The second session a glowplug broke and made it very hard to tune the engine.
In the third session , after changing the compression of the engine it finaly went a lot better, and this session was ended without failure.
In the fourth session the engine didnot satify Roeloefs' need of power, and he mounted his JP Eagle engine to his MRX4-R chassis.
The fifth and final session went without problems and Roelof could 'feel' the track
On the track other drivers were also preparing their cars and engines; Jilles Groskamp was getting familiar with his new Kyosho Evolva/Sirio combination, and showed his control over the car, although he is not an experienced 1/8 scale driver!
Even in his first sessions he showed pace and control, Jilles will be a competitor to recon with. In his first heat he had to get used to the track and had a hard time not to touch the curbstones, but used to the track and the car Jilles showed some fast flying laps!
Tonight Roelof and Fedor will prepare the engines for tomorrow, when the second day of frequency controlled practice will take part.
Posted by Bart_Banaan [ 2007/10/6 9:00:00 ] reads 241.
Day 2 - Friday 5 october 2007
Today there were 5 more frequency controlled practices, and Roelof started with his JP Eagle which was still on the MRX4-R chassis from yesterday. It was hard to give the engine some power in the low RPM regions, but at high RPMs the engine went very well. Roelof and Fedor had to work on the tuning of the JP.
Since Roelof and Fedor had some other engines which needed to be broken in and configured, they used the 2nd, 3rd and 4th controlled practices to get these engines in a basic set-up.
In the 5th and last session of the day Roelof mounted the JP Eagle engine again, after Fedor and he had done some work on it; with one head sshim less the engine had more compression which worked a lot better since Córdoba is 400mtr above sealevel which caused the engine to loose some power in respect to our normal 'sealevel' racing here in Holland.
With the rebuild JP Eagle the fifth session went very well; lots of torque and a high topspeed. This made Roelof one of the fastest cars on the track in his group. The chassis went very well, but only the rearside was a bit 'loose' which will be solved with the new body which Fedor prepared for Roelof.
The other drivers on the track also showed some nice racing in these practise heats...
Jilles Gosskamp had some problems to get used to the difficult combination before entering the straight, Roelof has made a film of Jilles on the track which can be seen when you are logged in as a Member to this site.
Shimo uses the new OS Max engine, and Roelof toke his time to check out Shimo on the track and he is impressed by the skills of Shimo and the potential of the new OS Max engine, which needed some more fine tuning to run optimal.
Also Rick Vriellijnck from the Mugen Team had some troubles with fining the correct lines before entering the straight; this is a very difficult corner combination on the track!
The wetter was changing in the course of the day; al lot of wind and the temperatures dropped, so probably on saturday it will be colder and maybe there will be some rain. Even when it rains Roelof and Fedor will get to he track to test some rain set-ups.
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