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From: Geoff <geoff@geoffwood.org>
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Subject: Re: Russell's car too light
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 22:36:41 +1200
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On 29/07/2024 8:16 pm, ~misfit~ wrote:
> On 29/07/2024 8:04 pm, ~misfit~ wrote:
>> On 29/07/2024 5:22 pm, Woozy Song wrote:
>>> In another forum, a zillion posters said because he did 1-stop that 
>>> he wore a few kg extra rubber off the tyres. But then would not the 
>>> tyres be unsafe in the final laps?
>>
>> The other forum is filled with clowns. It's nothing to do with the 
>> tyres, Merc have admitted it was their error. (Often a light car is 
>> ballasted up to weight and I dare say that this was done incorrectly.) 
> 
> Ehhh... I've just done some quick reading and Mark Hughes thinks it WAS 
> the tyres (and lack of a cooldown lap to pickup marbles?). <shrug> 
> Buggered if I know, I could have been wrong above. I remember the days 
> when engineers always told the driver to be sure to get plenty of tyre 
> pickup on the cooldown lap but haven't heard anything like that for ... 
> decades?


I hear it all the time .

geoff