St. Louis Race Report (Fit)

[Slade M.]

We ran the Heat Wave National, on August 1st, at Gateway in St. Louis
this past weekend. This was the second time out in our Honda powered
Van Diemen, and Dan finished 2nd to David Livingston, with Frank
Chambers coming in third. We know the Honda’s are down on power from
looking at the dyno sheets, but here is some hard data on how much
time that is worth at a pretty fast 1.65 mile track.

Sector time is from the beginning of Nascar turn three, to thirty
yards before where the cars dive off the banking for turn 1. This is
the main "straightaway" at this track.

David Livingston (Ivey Kent): 17.2 seconds

Dan Layton (Quicksilver Honda): 18.5 seconds

Frank Chambers (Quantum Kent): 17.8 seconds

Data was gathered from multiple unimpeded laps without any draft.
David and Dan had the same corner sector times, while Frank was slower
and later on the gas coming onto the banking. This shows the main
straight at Gateway, but don’t forget there also are several short
straights in the infield.

Race Fastest Lap Times:

Livingston: 1:04.763

Layton: 1:06.007

Frank Chambers: 1:06.692


Slade Miller

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[Frank C]

My Kent has an iron head.
- Frank
P.S. I forgot to thank Slade for the compliment on my driving! My tires were on their sixth session for the National. Thanks to Slade and Wendell for help with a spring change for Sunday.

[reidhazelton]

This was the second time out in our Honda powered
Van Diemen

Look at how much Mike Scanlan has been running, keep at it and adapting your program to your engine and you will be getting much faster as you develop it. This is not like changing a set of brake pads, it will take time to get it up to speed.

[RussMcB]

Yea, Slade. Dan just needs to adjust his driving, and you need to adjust the chassis. The Honda engine has different characteristics when you are driving the straight sections of the track. :-).