well , finally got a computer to work so I can share my experiences.
I prepared and built the DARC literally finishing on the Wednesday before the Broxtowe national,
the first time the car turned a wheel in anger was in the first timed practice it was very wet but the track drained very well so wasn't to much a problem went out on ballistic buggy greens all-round nothing cut off, even with me not being awake the car was very easy to drive and I learnt the track,
2nd practice was the same wet, but I could still see I could push the car more than I had done,
1st qualifier the car was really good only the muppet driving it let it down 76th in round,
2nd qualifier went out on schuey silvers allround and went 6 secs quicker 76th in rd very easy to drive
3rd qualifier I went back to ballistic greens these gave a little more front end so was easy to get better lines , I did get what I thought were glitches but in quali 4 found out I had had a sensor wire breaking down as the car had more pace in it than I had showed in qualification,
I qualified I 5 not great but not bad , the final was dry so baptism off fire ran ballistic greens with nothing trimmed, on the outlap I could tell grip was very hi but I could drive it without problems(bear in mind on my old Durango I would only ever run staggers)the buzzer went I kept out off trouble and immediately gained 2 places into 3rd we were out front covered by less than 2 ft I managed to get to 2nd then my servo horn let go I tried to carry on but I had no left steering,thats racing,
all in all even through a very mixed day off weather the car was great in all weather conditions, I can recommend the DARC without a problem ,cant wait to do a dry meeting as I have some ideas I want to try setup wise etc....
trekkker
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