Wednesday, May 23, 2018

Best Finish of the Year - Equipe Rapide #4 Mirror Cross

In a couple of weeks time we will have the annual running of the SCCA Pro Solo here in Texas, hosted at Mineral Wells airport.  It's always a good feeling to go into that event on a high, and we put ourselves in a great feeling position after this past weekend's Tune-up event with Equipe Rapide.  Each year a week or two leading up to the Pro Solo, Equipe Rapide hosts a practice event in the same formation and configuration as the real Pro Solo. 

For this year's running I brought out the E-Street Miata, with newly mounted and freshly heat cycled BFG Rival S 1.5 tires.  This time in the 225, 45, 15 size that we had previously tested fitment on.  The tires worked great on the car, and Phil Elmore and reunited this weekend to drive the car.  Our results would be very quick in a solid field of a lot of National level drivers doing tune up.  We managed to put the car 3rd overall in PAX and 9th as well.  So, two spots in the top 10 was certainly the best finish for the car this year and a great preview of what's hopefully to come for us in a couple of weeks at the Pro. 

We do have some tweaks to make on the setup as we ran slightly lower pressure than we think will be optimal, and experienced a little bit of rollover on this wider tire.  Grip was still fantastic, but we should be able to improve the contact patch and get better wear results with some advancement. 

Here are a few pictures of the results and the car with Phil and I both behind the wheel.  Enjoy!



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Best Finish of the Year - Equipe Rapide #4 Mirror Cross

In a couple of weeks time we will have the annual running of the SCCA Pro Solo here in Texas, hosted at Mineral Wells airport.  It's alw...