FOSC Dec 7&8 Racing Regularity AND Come and Try It

[david_syd_au]

Thanks to Dave for setting up the tents. The pit area was really friendly and good opportunity to relax and have a chat with other MX5 owners.

My pleasure, although to be accurate I only brought one tent/marquee, the others (not shown in your photo) came from Daniel Deckers and another David (can't remember his last name, sorry).
Once I moved my car out from under the shelter, we had plenty of space.
However, you should have seen it on Sunday.
We lashed together the 3 shelters and had a very impressive setup!

[evil_weevil]

Hey David,
out of interest what pads where you using prior?
what did you think of the carbo tech ones?

cheers,Chris

[david_syd_au]

Hey David,
out of interest what pads where you using prior?
what did you think of the carbo tech ones?

cheers,Chris

The track car is an NB8A with stock disks & calipers, and I had used Hawk Blue pads since the beginning of 2013, but when they unexpectedly reached thei end of service the only pads available were Hawk HP+. I have been using those since August for track days and supersprints, at Wakefield and SMSP South with no issues, but I suspect the longer regularity races on the weekend led to some fade at the 3 big stops at the south circuit.

Daniel had a used set of XP10 pads, not sure how much they were worn. After fitting them I drove around some SMSP access roads to bed them in, but still had issues in the next race with the car not stopping well. This was not a surprise with used pads and disks. However, they soon came good for the last race and I was able to really stand on the brakes, with the ABS only kicking in slightly at the hairpin, and with no evident fade.

My initial impression is that they are much better than the HP+ pads, as you would expect, and no worse than Hawk Blues, but I am not confident to give a more precise answer until I have done some more track time.