I wouldn't touch any of this!
It's illegal to tamper with the brake balance on a road car, and Matra spent a lot of time testing the car on track, so I still feel it's a bad idea to change anything. Certainly not to improve the car in the wet, where you don't want any bias towards the rear. The Murena becomes completely uncontrollable if the rears are allowed to lock up!
I once did a 180 degree spin on a wet road in a corner. I was a bit too fast and the rears lost traction because I lifted my foot from the trottle. This caused a bit of engine braking, and the car went off-limit and out of control. I went from driver to passenger in a fraction of a section, and I never got a warning before it happened.
It was NOT funny, but I'm glad I've tried it. It did it on a training track, fortunately, and I must admit that Roy and I were deliberately pushing things
But this is where the Murena can become a dangerous car: It performs so excellently, but unlike a front engined car, you don't get any warning before disaster kicks in. The steering wheel becomes a bit lighter when the front end starts loosing traction, but that's about the only hint you will get that you are nearer to the limit than you were before.
On a road car, I'll always prefer understeer from oversteer. I can react to understeer during braking by getting off the brake and back on, and I'm still the one *driving* the car. Oversteer, however, is dangerous, because when you loose grip on the rear end, there's nothing that can bring it back. Have you seen what happened to Minassian during the test weekend before Le Mans?
Oskar, I know you're going to Sturup next weekend (I wish I could be there!) and obviously you'd like to outperform a few fellow cars. The track is extremely 'curvy', so you might have a chance, but it will be difficult. Murena is a lot of fun (!) and a good deal of comfort, but it's not a 'super-fast' car. It was just never designed to be so.
- Anders