Hi Michael,
Well for me it depends on whether you have had a crash or not. For me also it depends on whether it is a championship race or a simple club meet – I find you get a lot more pit time between races if it is a championship meeting.
You are right in wanting to develop a process for yourself, it then becomes 2nd nature.
Whilst I can see what you are trying to do and I think your approach, from a logical perspective, makes a lot of sense, I would do it differently and focus on what, in your experience, tends to go wrong.
I have never lost a screw so I don’t check them during the race meeting. But I find that camber often wavers. Just a bump can put your camber out, which is why that is the first thing I check in a club meeting, using a simple plastic gauge rather than the Hudy setup station.
For any meeting, on the day before I will set the car up from scratch – droop, ride height, shocks etc etc.
For a simple club meet without a crash after each race I will then always check
• Front and rear camber
• Tyres
• Visual check of the drive shaft pins
• Between qualies and finals
o Ride height and tweak
o rear shock rebound and if there is time front shocks also – I find the alu shocks loose oil at rear more quickly that the fronts
With a crash
• As above
• Close look everywhere for any damage
• Then onto the setup board to check tweak and as many settings as I have time to check
For a championship meeting after each race
• onto the setup board and all settings are checked.
• Shock rebound checked all corners
• Tyres checked more closely
• Electrical connections
• Transmitter voltage reading
• Next battery voltage
rear ball diff stifness
visual check of drive shaft pins and maybe spray some grease in there
And yes if I am sitting there ready with 10 mins to go, I probably will pick up the driver and casually check a few screws – or alternatively walk away and get a bacon sandwich
