[USML Announce] Hoosier Daddies

Mon Jun 25 11:12:47 EDT 2012

So what you're saying is I should be ashamed taking my car to Jiffy Lube
for an oil change?

On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Richard Robbins <rerobbins at itinker.net>wrote:

> The problem was that when the car heated up the brakes would grab.  If
> they ran fast and tapped the brakes they would stick.  That was a bit of a
> problem on the auto-cross and endurance runs.  The drivers ended up
> avoiding the brakes entirely but never really got the car up to speed for
> fear that they'd need the brakes at some point and didn't want to trash the
> vehicle.  I was surprised to show up at the paddock and see Joseph tearing
> apart the brake assembly to redo something or other.  I had no idea he knew
> how to do that.
>
> He's at a four day post-competition seminar now put on by Optimum G
> Vehicles Dynamics.  The lead guy there is Claude Roulle.  I've never heard
> of him but everyone at the competition spoke his name with great deference.
>  They spent all day yesterday going over tires.  Joseph said his head was
> about to explode by day's end.  Today is aero and suspension.  Tomorrow is
> weight transfer and data acquisition.  Not sure how they put everything
> together on day four.
>
> Claude was highly critical of every car he saw.  He really dug in.  His
> highest compliment on the Cal car was for the steering system (Joseph's
> design) which got a faint "Well, I suppose your steering is OK."  I'm told
> that counts as a big win.
>
> One poor team miscalculated how much down force they'd get from their rear
> wing and it snapped the supports during a run.  The Cal car runs without
> fancy aero wings and the like.  I'm told that carbon fiber can be tricky to
> work with and it gets expensive.
>
> Great fun.  It's too bad that the teams don't get to drive other team's
> cars.  I'd love to see if other drivers could get more out of the Cal car.
>  Nobody wants to let the competition trash their cars.
>
> Joseph loves being able to apply what he is learning in class in a real
> world example.
>
> Hey -- how my team move back up in the standings?
>
> -- KR
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 9:08 AM, <rickgam at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>>  Rich;
>>     I love this stuff!  As you know, for better or worse, any kind of
>> auto racing is in my blood having grown up in the shadows of the Indy 500.
>> But come
>> on now, braking problems?  You go faster without brakes!  Tell Joseph I'm
>> proud of him - we need some more American representation in the racing biz.
>> It's a rotten shame that most of them have gone the NASCAR route instead
>> of true open wheel racing.  One of my sporting heroes has always been Dan
>> Gurney.  If he's not familiar with him, tell him to read up on Dan - he
>> was a true renaissance man of racing.  He was (and is) a very intelligent
>> man who
>> not only raced and won at all levels (Indycar, Formula 1, stock cars,
>> sports cars), but actually designed most of his own cars.  Anyway, those
>> motor-sport
>> design comps are really cool - I'll keep an eye out for young Joseph
>> Robbins.  Take care
>>   Rick
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> *From: *"Richard Robbins" <rerobbins at itinker.net>
>> *To: *"USML Announcements" <announce at usml.net>
>> *Sent: *Sunday, June 24, 2012 8:53:01 PM
>> *Subject: *[USML Announce] Hoosier Daddies
>>
>>
>> I just got back from a college motor-sport design competition and track
>> event in Lincoln Nebraska.
>>
>> I was too tired at night to drive to Omaha and scout the College World
>> Series.
>>
>> At any rate, on Saturday, while walking around the pit area, I saw some
>> Hoosier racing tires (nearly every team ran with those) with some
>> interesting chalk marks.
>>
>> The University of Kansas team had an awesome car and solid drivers.  They
>> won.  I pegged them as a super strong team about fifteen minutes after I
>> got to the track.  Illinois had a very good car.  Sadly, they busted a
>> front wing late in an endurance run and the car become too tough to steer.
>>  A team from Brazil had a very fast car.  Good drivers too.  Damn Brazilian
>> race car drivers. . .
>>
>> Cal came in 15 out of about 80 entrants.  The car ran strong but suffered
>> some brake problems.  Good driving kept them in the competition.  They had
>> been gunning for a top twenty finish this year, so fifteen exceeded their
>> goal by a lot.  Joseph says they want a top ten finish within the next two
>> years.  But for that pesky front brake drag they might have had a top ten
>> finish this year.
>>
>> Cool stuff.  Rick -- enjoy the picture.
>>
>> -- Rich
>>
>>
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