2009 CHAMPIONS:
It was a good year for Joel Feinberg. In a class of 25 drivers, he was on the podium 9 times on his way to capturing the season championship! The development tools supplied by Electron Speed (Motec Advanced Dash Logger system and Engineering Consultation) contribute to the ever increasing speed and reliability that Joel Feinberg finds in his car.
After a winter of development work in the Performance Tech shop, Primetime's Viper was hugging the corners (and tearing up the straights) at a pace that was threatening to embarrass quite a few of our competitors. Our "reward" was more intake restriction and a trackside retune by Electron Speed. more on this story at SpeedTV.com
UPDATE: Foundation Cup Winners! Despite being in the largest ALMS class (GT2), Primetime placed 1st and 3rd in season points in the ALMS Founder's Cup. This award is based on the points count across all of the independant teams in ALMS regardless of class. They achieved this level of reliability despite having almost no electrical system spare parts (no spare ignition coil, no spare air pressure sensor, no spare harnesses . . .). See the points tally on ALMS's site.
Motec's PDM can not only control a circuit like a traditional relay, but it provides a window in the health and activity of your electronic system. Here we see a screen shot of a test performed during the installation of a new system. The differential cooler is activated and its current consumption monitored. Data like this can be very valuable in endurance racing. When the engine stumbles . . . was it the lift pump in the fuel tank? or the main pump? or? The PDM's current monitoring output has likely already reported the answer to the dash. more on this story at Motec.com
This year we have installed many GPS receivers in the cars we support. Teams are using the systems in many ways. One of which is analysis of driving lines. Here is a picture of how two of our Koni Series drivers take the famous corkscrew at Laguna Seca. The red driver is carrying more speed in the middle of the segment but the white driver creates the fastest time through the segment. The tools used to create this picture include a GPS receiver, an ADL2, Motec i2 data analysis software and Google Earth.
Bill Gillespie is back in action with his Ralt RT41 and its Jennings Cosworth BDSSS. The electrical system has been updated with a Motec M800 ECU, and a M&W CDI unit firing four coils perched on the spark plugs. He is still using his Motec dash to keep an eye on things. This includes all four of the EGTs via a thermocouple to serial converter. Electron Speed did all of the electronics development and tuning including a custom, modular harness. We look forward to seeing how many class records fall.