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Old Apr 3rd, 2003, 03:51 PM   #10
L8APEKS
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Originally posted by xoura
The car is working great (it looks like), even with this new design on the backdoor. (a new design from Spa-FRancorchamps).

Oh yes, about the "new design". This was the result of my spinning at Radillon at about 120-140kph (I don't recall exactly) during my first practice at Spa on Monday!!! I spent all day Tuesday repairing the car to be ready for my test yesterday.

The car spun around twice before impacting the tire wall backward at the top of Radillon. It felt like I was spinning forever but if there is anyway to crash safely, going in backward is the best. Fortunately the damage wasn't too bad. For the speed and the spinning it could have been much, much, much worse. I was very lucky not to have more damage.

It was simply the result of trying to learn too fast my first time to a new track. Not very wise at all . For each corner, as you are learning, you are only supposed to increase your speed little by little until you are at the limits. Sometimes this can take many laps of practice. I tried to skip that step and paid the price.

[url=http://www.desmethracers.be]------ Ken Rahaim, # 11
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