Farnborough wrote: ↑29 Mar 2024, 10:52
Stu wrote: ↑28 Mar 2024, 23:45
Greg Locock wrote: ↑28 Mar 2024, 23:43
Shrugs, power on oversteer in a RWD? Sounds like normal behavior, just dial out your fixes to get more understeer. Weight distribution does have an effect - ask any pre-nanny F150 driver who is (as usual) carrying nothing in the back. I doubt moment of inertia contributes much. They've also made the rear track greater than the front which helps, more lateral load transfer at the back. So soften up the FARB, stiffen RARB, less roll steer at the front. LSD would tend to increase oversteer.
No. The Primera was FWD Super Touring…
Was that the one in which Matt Neal one the "big prize" for a privateer win in BTCC after being sold down into non works ownership ?
Quite a neat chassis anyway from what I recall, double wishbones all round in production form to give good option in chassis engineering from std pickup location as rules dictated.
That’s the one, I cannot find any free to view articles from the time (there is a Racecar Engineering deep-dive behind a Scribd paywall - written by Richard Davillia in period with some very good pictures), but this…
https://www.ultimatecarpage.com/car/396 ... -BTCC.html
…is free to view & gives a bit of history.
I think that Matt Neals first year in the Primera (1997) was in an old Janspeed car (RIP Keith Odor), but in 1998 he used an works car as an independent entrant.
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