unfortunately, less work done than planned. but i was at least able to do some laps on the original elise tires. i found they have the same size like the m3gtr tires and so i was a little bit nervous to see if the result is comparable to the m3gtr tires. the handling feels quite similar and my lap time of 7:43 was close to the best i did on the michelin_gt set. after just 10 laps (not enough time to do more) a quick check in motec showed that they are similar to the m3gtr set. to test the wear i just started a 5 laps ai session and what the hell, the ai driver was 10 seconds faster than me. in gtr, the ai as well as the ai opponents were always slower if they were set to less than 115 percent strength. so i think i have to work on my driving, the car and the track conditions were the same, so there is no excuse anymore and it is proofen that my exige is able to do such laps on the elise tires. but back to the wear, after 5 laps the front tires were down to 7 and the rear to 14. this isnt really nice, keeping in mind that the temperature of the tires is still below 80 degrees even under heavy pushing the car around the track. this wear will definitely kill the change tire at every second stop strategy for 24 hour races. if i go for med or hard slicks, i will be back to the cold tire problem and so i can go back to the michelin_gt tires which are a little bit easier to drive.
but i found some minutes to start on my smart roadster gt project. the engine mapping is complete, the tire adaption about 50 percent, the gears are finnished and so i can go for the first performance tests to adjust the model to the real world, even if the roadster still looks like a elise 😉 the final goal will be to create a smart roadster cup with about 20 cars or so, depending on my spare time. my real world roadster is requesting its time until the winter, next week it will be equiped with a brand new tarox 6 calliper brake system on the front, so many work to do here as well.