924RACR

I gave a presentation on Racecar Prep yesterday at our Waterford Hills Driver's School (for racing)... since I uploaded it to my website, I figured I might as well share it here for those who do partake... quite applicable, IMO, to those who track as well as go wheel-to-wheel.

Here's the link to the Tech page on my website:
http://vaughanscott.com/Tech/Tech_Ref.htm

Specifically, the presentation is here:
http://vaughanscott.com/Tech/Racecar...Prep_notes.pps

The checklists, in Excel format for use/duplication/modification, are here:
http://vaughanscott.com/Tech/Racecar...ata_sheets.xls

Hope that helps!

Lemming

Very nice, thanks.

John Veninger

Thanks for sharing!

mark kibort

checklist:

make sure i have all my stuff
drive to track
check tire pressures
race
pack up
drive home.



seriously, good stuff. Thanks for posting!

Mk

ajcjr

great post, is there anywhere we could download to print out so it can be reviewed and reread before race weekends?

mark kibort

He provided he powerpoint and excel spreadsheet to be downloaded.
Now, If can find some help at the track to get a hot tire temp in the hot pits, Ill be in business!

m

ajcjr

i can see the presentation but i can not print it out, something like that is great to review and review over and over

schwank

Mark your list is seriously incomplete! You forgot one of the most vital steps.

make sure i have all my stuff
drive to track
check tire pressures
race
pack up
drive home
BEER

924RACR

Exactly, Mark, and once you have beer, you'll find it's a lot easier to convince people to hang out in the hot pits for you!

jrgordonsenior

Keep a pressure gauge in the car, hit the pits hot unbuckling as you stop, jump out with gauge and check/bleed outside rear then front, etc. Strap back in and off you go. Yea it's a touch slower then having a helper, but still pretty quick....

mark kibort

I thought of doing that. good idea. Although, the Beer idea might work out better. Now, if i can find room for one more cooler.



mk

924RACR

Another thing, specifically on the subject of getting tire pressures... if you can't afford one of those fancy memory gauges, you need to get them written down somehow. This either requires a second person, or slows down the deal as you keep stopping to write them down.

We found a better way. We use a cheap digital voice recorder, from Office Depot, which clips to my crew chief's shirt. He then starts the recorder, runs around and calls them out loud (helps to always do them in the same order, obviously) while he's taking them (temps too), then over and done. He can then replay them back later, as many times as he needs, to write them down. It gets stored with the tire pressure gauge and pyrometer.

John H

Thanks for posting that. I had a DE checklist years ago. This will come in handy, if/when I get another enclosed trailer.

924RACR

???

I don't have an enclosed trailer... just a hella-full minivan...

kristap

Good information. Thank you for sharing!