Hello SpeedsimS guys,
It looks like nh will run on my computer from the next week on, too. Dave will help me and we have allready a date.
Those pics looks great and I can feel how proud Dave should be to get this work done very well to all the happiness of you. Will start testing it from next week on. Will check out the different car physics implanted in nh to rf. There I was riding the 512CL on LM67 track, Spa67 and Mount Panorama -Buthurst-.
Riding, I feel, is the better word. In rf it is no driving. You feel like the wheels are never on the tarmac. More like sliding on coal formed like an egg (called Eierkohle in German), and if I have seen your postings here, Dave was able to rebuild all the right mistakes those old cars could offer to the driver 1970.
Will need some days (or weeks) to get comfortable with those beasts, but if you are planning some races in March, I'll be inside.
And will try to get the 3:21.122 in 2nd race lap at rf LM67 CSGTmod with F512m in your nh mod (check out the "racingsportscars.com" for origin results and lap times under..\gallery pictures\all sportscar races\site 10). This site is a best use for myself to check out my bad or good speed in rf.
I was riding 70s cars not only with rf. In Germany, I was used to the slot-racing as well. At first with the smaler size 1:32, but more interesting is the scale 1:24, mounted on metal chassis. There you have to get a setup for each track as well. And, you drive on different track material like wood or plastic tracks from Carrera. Tires are smoothed on turning lathe or a smal turning lathe tool used at home and again on the race day (the plastic Carrera need to polish the rear tire with 2000 to 4000 corn paper for grip). Different rear tire material is used on wood or plastic tracks (PU on plastic - sponge rubber on wood), chassis and housing separated with springs with different grade, front and rear axle turning in ball bearings and much more.
Houses are used from Tamiya, Revell, ... till some small batch series factories (mostly resine).
For all are interested in check out "scaleracing.de". Ok, its in German (don't know English is possible), so use google for slot-racing US, England and Australia.
This hobby is not the cheap one, but funny. And a Japanese factory was realysing the houses for 917, 512S cc, 512S cl and 512m for the 5 Litre, different 908 and Alfa Romeo for the 3 Litre prototypes.
Back to Dave's work and some historic.
My office window was placed on an incoming main street in Stuttgart, Porsche town (and Mercedes). The Porsche 50 year anniversary get me jump to the open window as Hans Herrman was riding its 917 LM#23 to the Schlossplatz, where the party was going on.
Sound? Don't ask.
And it was visible, Hans Herrman still get problems to keep that beast on track!
All this and much more about the Porsche era is written in the book "Porsche 917". Porsche, the small car company was ready with the needed 25 cars for homologation.
More late was Ferrari with the 512S coda corte (coda lunga used at LM like P LangHeck -LongTail). Ferrari must sell some company percent to Fiat, to invest that money into the 512. And, Ferrari was one year to late. Porsche get running the 917 in 1969.
Porsche don't use a company team. They get teams like John Wyer, team Salzburg, Martini and other. So Porsche was free to construct and upgrading the 917.
Ferrari neglect its customer over years. Could sell cars to NART and other, but start with own team SEFAC. All this need time and manpower, not to keep quiet the Ferrari inhouse problem .
Maybe all those things come together, Ferrari could win the 12h of Sebring, only (outside the WSC70 Kyalami). Porsche wins all.
And more.
Porsche still was set up fine with the 3 liter 908 in different modifications, Especially on tracks like Nuerburg Ring and Targa Florio, the 908-3 kick all the big ones. The 3 liter Ferrari could not face the 908 and the Porsche 917 driver riding the 908-3 instead.
So Porsche easy win the WSC70.
Also we shouldn't forget the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33. On short and tight tracks this car was all the time a number and ready to eat points, Ferrari need to get a chance in 70s.
Ferrari was pressed into a corner and need to get better cars to face the 917. End of 1970, on the Salzburg 1000 kilometer race (Dave, races limited to 12/24h or 1000km mostly), Ferrari comes back with the upgraded 512S, the 512m (modificato).
The 512m shows up predominant to the 917, but again loose the race (Ickx/Giunti) with electric generator problems. The next race, 1000km Kyalami the 512m wins with 2 laps in front Siffert/Ahrens.
1971, Ferrari didn't use the 512m as factory team. Ferrari was busy with the new reglementation for 1972, when the 5 liter is kicked out of the WSC, because the Alfa Romeo Tipo 33 shows off in 3 properties, the 917 was beatable! Again Ferrari neclected the customer teams. Only Roger Penske could pretty face the 917. Penske upgrade its 512m (Sunoco) itself. But the Penske 512m often kick the race with technical problems (LM71 - Donohue/Hobbs), mostly in leading position.
Again a year for Porsche.
1972, the Ferrari inhouse problems grows up (Enzo's word was godmade), Ferrari loose Penske, Penske start at CanAm with Porsche's 917/10. Again a two year era for Porsche.
Remember Marc Donohue and the 917/30: A car only gets enough power, if you are able to pull a black strike from the end of a corner to the next braking point!
Those words are sign to Porsche.
Dave, I don't will tell you something or teach you. The pics here shows of great cars and all the guys respond you have well done a great job. Next week it should be my time responding you. I only was in historiy.
A little I miss the 512S cc / cl. Maybe, you will teach me a little in modding, and we get the allow from the CSGT-guys, we could use the rf 512S in nh, too.
In respect to all the guys, spending there spare time to get us such mods, tracks and cars.
Steve