My son helped me remove the rear seats from my Type R and I have weighed the seats and space saver spare wheel and they add up to 50 kg's so I found out that that made the rear end a bit squirrelly on the first hot lap @ my local track when turning into T1 @ app 125kph but the rear behaved better after I got some heat into them and I gained confidence to push harder and was pleased to lower my PB 3/4 of a second.
As per usual the Honda performed flawlessly with the only gauge that moved at all was the fuel gauge that showed that it used 3/4 of a tank of 98 over 30 hot laps plus 15 warm up and 15 slow down laps so was a happy chap with that.
Was also pleased that my lap times were equal or better than some potentially much faster cars with less experienced drivers.
I know that there are many that think or say that at my age what I am doing is dangerous but I absolutely love driving and entering events and age doesn't come to mind when the helmet and race face are on will continue to do so as long as possible before I hang up my helmet and gloves and start to grow old in the head.
As per usual the Honda performed flawlessly with the only gauge that moved at all was the fuel gauge that showed that it used 3/4 of a tank of 98 over 30 hot laps plus 15 warm up and 15 slow down laps so was a happy chap with that.
Was also pleased that my lap times were equal or better than some potentially much faster cars with less experienced drivers.
I know that there are many that think or say that at my age what I am doing is dangerous but I absolutely love driving and entering events and age doesn't come to mind when the helmet and race face are on will continue to do so as long as possible before I hang up my helmet and gloves and start to grow old in the head.
