catch is some serious road noise on coarse-chip
surfaces. Although it has to be said that the Michelins
are hardly on their own there.
However, there have been a couple of other changes
to the set-up of the R727, and both of those changes
should cancel out criticisms of the car we had at
Winton, even if they helped make it go as fast as it did.
For a start, the brake pads have been changed from
the race compound we sampled at Hot Tuner for a
compound that is vastly more agreeable to the ears.
While you can’t fault the race-compound pads for
hauling you down during multiple laps of Winton, they
did feel and sound kind of grainy and, if you’re going
hard enough on the road to require the stop-after-stop
performance of the race items, you yourself probably
want locking up. So no problems with that change.
Secondly, since the need for ultimate corner speed
is replaced, in any decent road car, by a requirement
for a combination of grip, stability, feel and feedback,
the car got a new set of front-end alignment settings.
Combine the new alignment with the different front
tyre and it should transform a car that, at Winton,
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