Are Your Brakes Just Slowing You Down?

For episode 49 of the Flatirons Syndicate Motorsports Podcast, Jon, Ryan, and Scotty sit down to talk about how the last NASA Rocky Mountain event went at High Plains Raceway the previous weekend.

When you are building a car to compete in a specific class, it is natural that your focus would be the cars and drives that you are competing against. What Scotty and Ryan discovered was that sometimes taking a look at what is going on in other similar classes can be enlightening too. That change of perspective can give you some ideas of new things to try, as well as new benchmarks for how competitive your car actually is.

Scotty and Ryan are usually focused on the NASA Time Trials classes, but the class that got their attention this weekend was the GTS (German Touring Sedan) 2 and 3 classes. These are typically BMW’s that have lower power-to-weight limits in their class (14/1 in GTS-2) and these cars race wheel to wheel as well. So there is no guarantee that they will get clean laps. But even with all that, those cars would dominate the class that they would fit in for Time Trials.

This lead to two important realizations. The first was that it can really help to run a car in a class where there is a clearly tried and tested upgrade path, with parts that are well known to be effective. The second was that sometimes your brakes are just slowing you down.

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