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Old 05-26-2016, 11:25 AM
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Just wow I would be afraid to race with you. One little crash and all friendship is destroyed Now, great work! Looking forward to your next post.

I took my F201 to the track today and had a lot of fun. With the original Tamiya tires the car is far from easy to drive, but it is fast on the straight (10.5t)
The corners were quite a challenge as the car tends to oversteer.
My guess is that the rear diff is locked to strong. I tried to loosen the screw to open it up a bit, but had no success. It is either tight or open
A friend said that this is normal for old Tamiya diffs... I need to look a this.

This problem cost a lot of laptime as the tires does too. They just don't have enough traction. Otherwise the car would easily match the speed of touring cars.
On track I could forget everything just by watching the car drive
Here some pictures:

Michael Schumacher leaving the pits.


Nearly 15 years between them (Xray F1'16 in front).

I forgot to mention how nice the shocks work on this car! Going over the curbs was no problem at all!
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