Norsemen RC news — Race reports

Michiana RC Raceway (MRCR) near South Bend, Indiana hosted round 2 of the Motiv Midwest All-Star Carpet Series last weekend. Our American driver, Rob King, now has a streak of two TQ’s and fastest lap. Unfortunately, a couple race incidents had him finishing 2nd.  This is another American Black CRC carpet track with quite a bit of traction. Rob was testing a few prototype parts over the race weekend and found a couple of them to be useful. A thicker chassis, a longer top deck, and a front arm brace. Some of these will be available on our web-shop in the...

 SPG1 Round 3 happened last weekend. Track changed to more flowing, open layout that was slightly faster. Testing was a bit difficult coming into the weekend due to very high traction causing rollovers from the previous layout. If you changed your setup to deal with this, then in the morning you had to switch back to a more forgiving one to take advantage of the lower traction.  This round saw a change to the qualifying procedure. Instead of 90 minutes to put in your fastest lap time, it was broken up into three parts. We will be using this format...

Congratulations to Rob King for starting the Motiv Midwest All-star Carpet series with a dominating win.He TQ’d the Fury, finished A1, and had fastest lap. Rob has been driving the car for a few months in America on their CRC black carpet and outdoor asphalt surfaces. Norsemen are very fortunate to have Rob’s extensive F1 experience guiding us through track conditions we are unable to replicate locally. Thanks Rob.Also good to see another friend of Norsemen, Rick Vessell, come in at A3. Although Rick is driving a different car, he has been providing lots of technical design and setup support....

Round 2 of the SPG1 series had a more technical layout and we had a chance to test a few setup choices the day before. We concluded the direct rear wing mount felt better, but gave us slower lap times. We also noticed a shorter wing mount could help the car get into the corners better. Therefore, this round we didn’t test any prototype parts aside from all of us running the shorter front wing mount chassis. We were off a couple of tenths halfway through opening practice, but our cars felt strong. Bob was especially slow as he was...

The day started off a little stressful as we had to test motors, wire and install ESCs, and break in new tires.  Martin and Lory used standard setups with typical Norsemen option parts. Bob was testing prototype parts that stiffened the chassis flex. After an hour of practice, the tires came in and the team was ready for qualifying. Bob immediately realized the chassis flex was too stiff and modified his setup to try to deal with the front diving in too hard and causing oversteer in and out of the corners. Martin TQ’ed with only a handful of laps....