Roval Advice

[TKO MOTORSPORTS TEAM]

#561249

Baseline with pressures you normally run .Watch right side tire temps adjust as needed. Your running 3/4 of the trioval you might want a little more right side seat head support. little more comp right side and little more rebound left side. If you have never run a circle track before its a pucker factor first few times out. Some people get comfortable quickly and some never get comfortable. The wall is alot farther away then looks when your driving.

[13COBRA]

#561253

TKO MOTORSPORTS TEAM said:
Baseline with pressures you normally run .Watch right side tire temps adjust as needed. Your running 3/4 of the trioval you might want a little more right side seat head support. little more comp right side and little more rebound left side. If you have never run a circle track before its a pucker factor first few times out. Some people get comfortable quickly and some never get comfortable. The wall is alot farther away then looks when your driving.

The wall doesn’t bother me as much as not being confident about getting heat in my tires and brakes like I’m used to.

[TKO MOTORSPORTS TEAM]

#561262

13COBRA said:
The wall doesn't bother me as much as not being confident about getting heat in my tires and brakes like I'm used to.

Dont worry that track layout and and track temp you will get heat in the tires pretty quick. You can always scuff tires before if thats possible so your not on stickers. Brakes your probably right. Morning session might be cool. Only 3 places you will have heavy braking. You can always tape off brake ducts if you need some temp. It will also help top speed around trioval. At least tape off possible in morning session and qualify, afternoon and race you will need brake cooling.

[Shannon Whitehead]

#561316

Nick, We run out here at CA Speedway, but Kansas uses more of the Oval. I set pretty much normal pressures and at Cal speedway the track is in great shape and I don’t see excess tire wear.

The one thing I would watch for is the upper edge of your tires. The high speeds turns and your aero can cause your fenders to touch the outside upper edge of the tires and start a groove. Keep an eye out.

[MO_Better]

#561325

It has been my experience that on tight ovals (less than 1.5mile diameter) if you run a lot of camber, the inside front tire (in this case the driver side front) will get a lot of wear on the inner half / edge of the tire. The downforce in the banking really loads up the tires and the camber makes tire wear worse and (isn’t as necessary in the banking). Keep an eye on it. Given only two right turns, if I were racing I’d back out the camber a bit on the driver side front tire. If its just an HPDE I probably wouldn’t bother but would keep a close eye on tire wear nonetheless.

Just build up to it. When driving it at the limit, you really need to watch your placement in the banking. When your in the banking, you should be looking through the top of the windshield for reference points – some tracks have painted lane markers periodically but in the absence of those you want to find imperfections in the track to use as references – because when you exit the banking the car will naturally want to move toward the wall. So if you find yourself on a high line in the banking, just back off and take it easy on the exit.

Mark

[Shannon Whitehead]

#37645

I’ve never ran on a Roval before. I’m going to be running Kansas Speedway in about a month. What do I need to know?

Assume I need to run 7-8lbs more air in the tires, especially the right side, to avoid rolling and cutting. Any other major changes?

Here’s the configuration.

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