Goodwood Bailey Sprint

The SBD 2.0L XE Dallara was driven by Steve & Matt. Steve was FTD – 77.49s, Matt was 2nd Overall – 80.20s

Zoe was competing in the SBD 1.6L EcoBoost Westfield. She was 2nd in Class – 98.34s

Report:

We were hoping to carry out lots of tests with the new wing and mods to the floor of the SBD Dallara, unfortunately it rained a lot in the morning so it wasn’t ideal for testing. The car felt nice to drive even in the pouring rain and it allowed Steve to analyse the new gear change software still further while Matt and John Hughes looked at the data coming from the front wing. Fortunately the rain stopped and track began to dry but we were still on wets until after lunch. The track was now almost 100% dry so we were getting more useful information. Unfortunately it was realised there is some kind of measurement error in the model and the wing isn’t in the perfect position to get the correct air flow into the tunnels. So the information we were getting was slightly skewed. Matt and John managed to make some adjustments to the wing position but were unable to optimise it for the day. Steve had forgotten to re-connect the rear roll bar for the dry track, which should have been a bad thing but it gave us some useful information and some ideas on how to improve the mechanical grip still further. There is definite improvements in downforce as Matt & John could see from the data but it is a question of now putting everything together and getting everything to work correctly. This is likely to take some time as there is a lot of changes that need to be integrated and tested but that’s development!