[Cobra #3170]

We had some relatively good results from Pleasanton but also more car issues.
Saturday the car was fastest but not by as much as I thought it should be because we had understeer on turn in, mid corner and even exit. We made a change or two and it improved but not as much as I thought it should. Sunday morning we raised the rear by 1/2" (big change) and picked up a second on the field. We have a friend who brought his Optima winning Z06 complete with Katech engine and aero package. He had Kuhmo Viper tires mounted that are illegal everywhere now but he was just doing fun runs. This is a very serious car as an example he beat Scott in my GT3 at the Fontana Optima autox a couple of years ago with those Kuhmo's when they were legal. Scott was national champion in 2016 and 2017 in that Porsche and defeated a whole bunch of Corvettes and Porsche's. Sorry this is so long but I wanted to establish Corvette credentials. He beat Scott by .4 seconds at Pleasanton so not too bad considering we gained 2 seconds over Bridgestone's last year with Kuhmo's when they were legal. The transmission started making really nasty noises on decel so Scott wanted to withdraw from competition immediately. The crowd saw us get beat by a Chevy so I could not stand that and convinced Scott to take one more run. We raised the rear another 1/4" and added two sweeps of rebound to the front shocks. Scott then beat the Corvette's time by 1 full second and I am sure that we could find 1 more second if necessary. Lynn Park stopped by and got to see the Cobra make a pass so that was great too because he has only seen it on video.
We won ProX but did not run in the shootout. To put it into perspective the winning time for Prox in the shootout was 78.4 Scott ran a 74.6 in the Cobra.
The new suspension really helped braking, we are picking up time on every stop. Once we figure out tuning I am sure it will be even faster, all in all I am very glad we made this change.