According to the programme, practice was to revert to solos first but there was a change of plans and the sidecars were sent out before us. We were told that the sidecars would get the full 1½ hours and we would get a short session again so we decided to do 2 laps on the R1 and only practice the pit lane speed limit on the 600.
With about 25 minutes notice, it was announced that we’d go out 40 minutes early. With a bit more notice I could have got 2 laps on the 600 before I took the R1 out but I decided it was too late to change my plan.
I had made a small change to the R1 front ride height and it didn’t work as I had expected it to. After the session I spoke to Richard from Maxton and we decided I had too much load on the front tyre and it was deforming entering corners creating the odd feeling I was getting. This was also causing the tyre to look like it wasn’t working. We have a plan for the race so I hope it works.
I practiced the 60kph speed limit in pit lane using the speed read-out on pit lane and decided on the rpm I needed for a safe 55kph as the time penalties are very harsh for exceeding 60. Luckily Bridget picked up the official speeds for the session and it turned out that the read-out was 5kph under so we would need to slow down another 500rpm. We’re not in Ireland but at times we could be!
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