Originally Posted by BGTV8

Hmmm ....

Last weekend was Round 1 of the Victorian State Circuit Racing Championships at Sandown Raceway in suburban Melbourne (AUS).

I could only attend on Sunday and missed quali on Sat and so started RoG on Sunday morning.

I battled rear brake lockup (with no more adjustment to bias forwards) as I had to replace the rear calipers at late notice (old calipers had seen 19 seasons of faithful service and I could not get a rebuild kit as NLA). To show how sensitive these things can be, the replacement caliper pistons (4-piston calipers) were 1mm larger in diameter and that was enough to disturb the balance to the extent that I ran out of front bias.

Anyway - the rears were chattering under brakes pretty much all the time and a fluffed down-change lead to a compression lock and around she went.

The guy in P2 got a bit more than he bargained for but we did not touch and I finished P2 for the race.