This coming weekend I'll be racing my Insight in the last autocross event of the season for Sacramento region SCCA. This event is an enduro. In this format, you get three two-lap runs on Saturday. Then on Sunday, everybody comes back and gets one 5-lap run on the same track. Fastest times on Sunday get trophies.
Here's my dilemma. I'm afraid the 5-lap trophy run is really going to tax my battery pack, and thus hurt my times. They did a similar two-lap event earlier in the year (without the 5-lap second day) and I found that I had to "manually" charge the pack by holding the rpms at 3k while waiting between runs. This worked fine, but how the heck am I going to survive a 5-lap run? Any suggestions?
Perhaps more importantly, do I risk damaging the pack or any of the hybrid systems under these circumstances? I really want that trophy, and I think I have a good shot at it, but I don't wanna do any damage! :shock:
Here's my dilemma. I'm afraid the 5-lap trophy run is really going to tax my battery pack, and thus hurt my times. They did a similar two-lap event earlier in the year (without the 5-lap second day) and I found that I had to "manually" charge the pack by holding the rpms at 3k while waiting between runs. This worked fine, but how the heck am I going to survive a 5-lap run? Any suggestions?
Perhaps more importantly, do I risk damaging the pack or any of the hybrid systems under these circumstances? I really want that trophy, and I think I have a good shot at it, but I don't wanna do any damage! :shock: