FSAE-A huge off track moment

During the second endurance event Errol Hassett had a huge off track moment, getting a little carried away with throttle coming out of a hair pin to a short straight section just before a slalom the car kicked the back out and went off track.


There was a uge puddle of water at that point of the circuit and it made for a slightly amusing photo. The wet track from the rain and the slick tyres was a bit of a handful to drive.

Race seat progress

Today, Tim Stockton and Errol Hassett started to lay the fibreglass and carbon onto the seat mould with help from Candice Woodhams.

Went well mostly and we are very impressed with how it is looking, we waxed the mould last night and applied PVA release agent this morning so it should come off with less effort on our part.


Above: Tim Stockton appliess layers of carbon to the mould



A days work: This is what we produced for the day, not quite finished with some sandwich material to be added and then more glass but looking the goods.

Roughly 1 layer glass, then 1 layer carbon and around 2 layers of glass on top of that at the moment. Probably put one more layer of glass on maybe 2 around the sandwich material areas. Should be ready to pull of the mould to test fit next weekend...........with a few days to spare before the car launch November 12th.

UPDATE

And here it is.......

Race Seat: The finished part (almost) in the chassis. Looks fairly good, not perfect but a marked improvement on previous years work.

Mould damage: Getting the part off the mould proved to be quite the effort and fair bit of damage was done but it should still be able to be used next year.

Hope: We hope that this years good work in design and manufacture will not go to waste next year. This mould can be repaiered and re-used to ensure the quality of CMT racecars remains to be of a high standard.

Happy as Errol ?: Errol Hassett looks happy as Larry in the new race seat. The first test fit in the chassis has been a proving of the concept (for now). The design idea and manufacture methods seem to be a success.