Schumacher Cougar LD2

https://youtu.be/VZg5NgyENoo

I stuck my Gopro to the front of the LD2 at the last summer round of Tiverton in September 2022. The track was still quite wet and I was using yellow dry tyres, so I was spinning out and going quite slowly. But it’s still interesting to see a buggy’s eye view of the track.

This was the last outing for the LD2 before “Turnbuckle-gate”.

So Tiverton tomorrow. And seeing as I haven’t quite had the results I’d like there this year, I spent a whole day today preparing to put my best car on the astro in the morning.

The plan went mostly well. Ball diff rebuilt with a new thrust race. Bearings cleaned and dry lubed. ESC remounted with better servo tape. Having got all that done, I was planning to go all out and fix the threads on the front hub. I had a bit of an ooopsie…

Oh crap! That said, It might not be the disaster I first thought. In theory, the brass hub is meant to be for carpet only.

So in went the brass hub. I have had issues with the nose flying up a bit on the straight and tabletop jump ath Tivvy, and I’m also trying to get the brake to be less rear limited, not easy when you have to have high rear grip for the off camber bends and odd Astro at tivvy. So, I’m going to commit to it.

I’ll let you know how it goes tomorrow, the KD has also been put back to running order, I’m actually hoping I won’t need it.

So the Summer champs at my local track came to a close today. Over all, it left me scratching my head a bit. This summer, I’ve learned a hell of a lot about dialling the car into the track and conditions. What seems to be happening, is somehow, despite the car being quite drivable, time just seems to bleed away. The forced health break in the middle of the season had more of an impact than I might have realised. So I think it’s just a matter of patience, persistence and getting my butt in gear to do more practice.

Results

2wd Buggy

Best 5 results and countback apply.

Pos	Name	Ability	Points	R1	R2	R3	R4	R5	R6	R7	R8	R9
1	Keith Halsey	99%	499	99	0	98	100	0	100	99	96	101
2	Gavin Knight	98%	496	0	0	99	0	0	100	101	98	98
3	Kevin Greenway	95%	481	93	97	0	94	99	0	98	90	0
4	Dale Calder	94%	473	96	99	95	0	0	0	0	88	95
5	Chris Cooke	93%	471	88	93	91	92	101	0	0	94	0
6	Gary Simmons	92%	465	92	91	86	0	0	95	97	83	90
7	Alistair Munro	92%	464	86	0	0	96	94	91	94	81	89
8	James Santer	92%	464	0	0	89	0	96	92	96	82	91
9	Michael Halsey (J)	92%	463	89	0	83	91	0	96	95	84	92
10	Sophie Calder	92%	463	90	99	94	0	0	0	0	87	93
11	Wayne James	90%	455	84	92	90	93	0	0	0	86	94
12	Martin Owen	99%	399	0	0	101	100	0	0	0	99	99
13	Andrew Nelson	93%	376	94	0	0	0	95	94	0	93	0
14	Oscar Mills	84%	338	81	85	0	0	0	0	92	80	0
15	Oli Davies	95%	289	0	95	96	98	0	0	0	0	0
16	Jos Hooper	94%	285	95	0	0	97	0	93	0	0	0
17	Ted Calder (J)	90%	273	0	0	85	0	0	0	0	92	96
18	Bradley Satterley	90%	272	87	0	0	0	0	97	0	0	88
19	Daisy Miller	84%	256	0	84	81	0	0	0	91	0	0
20	Martyn Hadley	97%	196	101	0	0	0	0	0	0	95	0
21	Matthew Hodges	95%	192	0	0	0	95	97	0	0	0	0
22	Dan Hurrell	94%	189	0	96	93	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	Paul Rose	92%	186	98	0	88	0	0	0	0	0	0
24	Paul Curtis	91%	183	0	0	0	90	93	0	0	0	0
25	Cam Pollinger	90%	182	0	90	92	0	0	0	0	0	0
26	John Farringdon	89%	180	91	0	0	0	0	0	0	89	0
27	Leon James (J)	89%	179	0	0	0	89	0	90	0	0	0
28	Miles Harris	87%	176	83	0	0	0	0	0	93	0	0
29	Alan Pritchard	85%	172	0	88	84	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	Nigel Godber-Ford	84%	169	0	87	82	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	Lewis Hopkins	100%	101	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	101	0
32	Stuart Ball	99%	100	0	100	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
=33	Charlie Klinkenberg	97%	98	0	0	0	0	98	0	0	0	0
=33	Mark Cox	97%	98	0	0	0	0	0	98	0	0	0
=35	Steve Ashton	96%	97	97	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
=35	Dan Harding	96%	97	0	0	97	0	0	0	0	0	0
=35	John Pape	96%	97	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	97	0
=35	Dan Osbourne	96%	97	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	97
39	Ken Fung	93%	94	0	94	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
40	Haiden Hicks (J)	91%	92	0	0	0	0	92	0	0	0	0
41	Nick Langdon	90%	91	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	91	0
42	Terry House	88%	89	0	89	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
43	Todd Simmons	86%	87	0	0	87	0	0	0	0	0	0
44	Riley Mills	85%	86	0	86	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
=45	Steve Pollinger	84%	85	85	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
=45	Neale Carbis	84%	85	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	85	0
47	Ethan Owen (J)	81%	82	82	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
=48	Theo Gooding	79%	80	80	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
=48	Luke Harding	79%	80	0	0	80	0	0	0	0	0	0
50	Olivia Pritchard (J)	78%	79	0	0	79	0	0	0	0	0	0

Bit annoyed that I let Gary pip me at the last today, But he had new shiny bits which seem to have sorted the wallowing rear end of his car. James’ new Associated seems to really suit him, so quite surprised I managed to stay ahead of him.

Congrats to Keith Halsey, consistent performance while doing all the spanner work on multiple cars every meeting is very impressive.

One more Outdoor meeting for the LD2 before it goes into full Carpet setup and the KD comes out for the winter season.

To knackered to do a full report tonight. Sadly, the footage I tried to get didn’t work out. But I’ll give you the full SP tomorrow.

Driving still scrappy when it matters, but I started the day with a smashing 12 lapper in a clean run. Then the remaining qualifiers and final were silly mistakes that made what could have been a B final and a good result.

That is where the car was 🙂

And 11 laps 310 was where my driving was the rest of the day. One positive to take from the day was I managed to get into the “Steering waggle” over the table top jump, which weirdly, really does seem to work.