Great to see ooplers Vicky , James Helliwell and Stu again after some time
Greetings to Jimmy also -looking forward to catching up with you in one of the upcoming events.
Regarding the RB5 conversion, chassis is narrow 3mm alloy with plastic sidepods for the electronics,you can tune flex by adding /removing some of the alloy siderail screws. Plastic side rails will also be ready and available in a couple of days. The facts that I am racing on full carpet tracks at this level of event twice a year ,the chassis ready for the race was the +8mm one that didn't suit the tight technical track an the fact that I had never raced before on those tires probably do not help but anyway we did give it a shot .In the last qualifier the car seemed to work well (much better than me
) and could have probably been even better had I removed 1 row of front studs.Vid of one of the first outings of the car in the petit here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJxoa...ature=youtu.be .In the final I was honestly ready to sleep...(the first day was very long-finishing at 21:00 and certainly put on a lot of strain on all of us who flew from abroad) so I just drove it around .Worth noting is that the conversion allows the car to be built in both mid and rear versions.I will be opening up a thread with info about it.Large array of machined plastics,aluminium and steels in our cars also. Big thank you to the set up master, Mr Ralls for his help . Big thank you also to Argiris (who drove brilliantly to win his final by the way) for his help so far in the RB5 project - he arranged to have the personal RB5 SP2 of the Greek Kyosho distributor available for me to put our conversion on and race it in this years Petit event.Argiris will be testing the RB5 conversion on dirt in the upcoming months
Greetings to all friends we met again and the new ones we made
and Mr Petit for making the event happen despite all the difficulties.
Manolis and Chryssalenia