Photos from today

New brakes worth it?

Yes. Survived 5 sessions before they got to the point at which I lost a critical amount of braking power. I was amazed at how hard you can hit your brakes on a wet track without locking the fronts.

The problem I had, in the end, was with tyres. The're showing a really strange wear pattern - the tread blocks are down under the legal limit on the outer edge, but almost untouched on the inner edge. This is repeated over all tread block 'bands' across the whole tyre. It has only happened on the nearside, too - both front and rear.

The offside is largely evenly worn.

Very odd indeed - Ashtrayvanman couldn't quite believe or understand it, either.

Hmmm - tyre lightly loaded being dragged over surface. Must be them lemon meringue tyres you bought.

That wouldn't explain it - most of the bends are right handers, so the lightly loaded side, for most of the lap, is the offside.

Although it does explain why the nearside takes more of a hammering - but it doesn't explain why they wear in such an odd way.

I'm relucatant to spend double on tyres in the hope they'll last 4 track days, though - so, unless I can get a cheap set of Yokos, I'll stick with more Marangonis.

I'd look at rotating them around a bit. Or trying to shed more weight from the car - has the rear seat gone yet?

No, I'm not removing stuff from the car.

And these tyres are so shot, I can't do another day on them.

SteveH wrote of going on a Track day:

Try putting more air in the left hand side of the tyre next time?

snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk (SteveH) wrote in news:1i0jkpr.1e1662g1o2fo4qN% snipped-for-privacy@italiancar.co.uk:

you could get away with putting the back seats down. Allegedly.

LOL, that is stock dry weather soggy spongy road pressure for the large barge.

To be fair, the 75 only weighs 1100kgs.

I may look at running higher pressures next time out - but need to get a new set of tyres first.

Hah, the Vee's are -

Front 1.4 bar = 20.3 psi

Rear 2.1 bar = 30.5 psi

:-D

Ouch - a vague attempt to get stering feel and feedback in a car with no weight over the front.

No wonder they swap ends under braking on trackdays!

It had new fronts just before I got it, so I'm thinking I should check them, as according to other owners, tyre fitters don't seem to accept a pressure so low...

God, the estelle used something like 26 front 28 rear and that was only a 1.2 cattle truck.