FRL~ToCA13 - CONGRATULATION NINNERS, 3-TIME ToCA CHAMPION!Finished 

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Take a race off the calendar and move subsequent events up a week?

  • Yes, take out Nurburgring!

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You put tape on radiators to make the engine hotter, take them off to make it cooler.
No you put tape on to reduce the drag you coward noob.

Surely removal of tape = more air getting into the engine = cooler temperatures, not hotter?

We had tape on radiators when racing Rotax karts to ensure the engine was running at optimum temperature depending on the air temp.

Not necessarily true in some 2 stoke air cooled engines, reducing the fuel/air ratio (adding more air) can cause engines to run at hotter temperatures due to the lack of lubricant (oil) around the piston. Not sure it makes much difference in Rotax due to water cooling, but the top rotax enduro teams run slightly larger jets in the carbs, slightly strange given that it increases fuel usage dramatically. And they also run larger sprockets to keep the revs down, and when taking teeth of we always used to go down on the jetting(reduce fuel/air ratio) to improve response out of the corner and taking into account less fuel needed at top end (less revs). So i guess a larger jet in Rotax (increasing the amount of fuel) does have an effect on the temperature otherwise the enduro teams would run smaller jets to account for less teeth and to improve fuel usage. This had no-where near as big affect on the engine temperature as tape, but it does make a difference (especially in air cooled engines, comer, JICA, Formula A, ICA etc)
 
Off-topic for a quick question...

What's with all the Thomas, the tank engine avatars? Is it because of Ant-Man trailer?

Most likely. Or a dig at those with My Little Pony avatars. I find the whole shebang to be stupid.
 
So only through @Spurgy 777 did I finally realize the Willow track we were supposed to be racing on was a "narrow, twisty version" so I guess passing up that opportunity is more or less a good thing. Anything that's twisty sounds like a place where Audi is going to get 9 podiums :P

Well, then we have Nürb and Silverstone, of course, but I'm still a lot more hopeful about those places than Autumn Ring.
 
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Anything that's twisty sounds like a place where Audi is going to get 9 podiums :P
It would've been a complete crapshoot with absolutely everyone getting punted absolutely every corner.

Although yes we would've #rekt, we were a full 2 seconds faster than our testing times ;)
 
Internet people came and upgraded our internet today at my apartment. Wish I could take it home for the summer.

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Anyone up for some practice races in a Club Lobby Friday/Tomorrow night at 2000 GMT to see if the upgrade has any effect on the servers?
 
Hey guys, wondering if your rep still taking entries? What cars are available?

Sure i've seen you around before :lol:

Honda Mazda or Citroen available.


RED BULL RING STEWARDING:

Race 2:

@chrisjohnson93 position swap after incident with @rustyMercedes and @Carbonox .
Old finishing order: CHR/FRA/CAR
New finishing order: FRA/CAR/CHR

@Spurgy 777 @rcb929 - whilst a clumsy move from RcB which shoved me and Spurgy off, that in itself caused zero repercussions. Spurgy driving RCB of fdid however. There would have been a time penalty but you two finished so far off having effectively been penalised yourselves in that incident that none will be applied (next car was 20 seconds back - a 20 second penalty for such an incident would be drastic). So a warning in this case, but I will add only reason time penalty was NOT implemented was due to the finishing position.

Also final warning for @chrisjohnson93 @Spurgy 777 . Sort the spoilers out - as in GET THE RIGHT ONE!

@DK and @raceorama123432 (from AR) awarded points for attempting to start.

Revised standings:
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Lock ins: @Spurgy 777 @Yeratel84 @Furinkazen @LancerEvo7 @AudiMan2011 @Panoz @chrisjohnson93 @Andil @Ninners @Carbonox @DK @cnd01 (not present I think though?)

Qualifiers: @Roflwaffle @The Stig Farmer @raceorama123432 @rustyMercedes @GTracer98 @Damon Hill @smuffyatfcp @R1600Turbo @BRRT_Angel and if he takes up an entry @bdubclub .

Suzuka 2014 this weekend guys and girls.
 
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