>>There's a big tree, on the right edge of the Nuerburgring track just
>>before the Adenaur Forest section
Michael replied:
Yeeeha! I managed a lap at 8:59! That still includes several spins,
so I'm certain there's a lot of time left to be shaved off.
I keep telling myself to just calm down. But I still haven't
completed one, single, solitary lap of the Nuerburgring without
spinning or crashing somehwere.
The Nuerburgring is so awesome because *every* curve feeds directly
into another one, so one small mistake has immediate consequences in
the next curve, or the one thereafter.
It's just so tempting to try any one particular curve a little
differently to see if it's an improvement. Then, just as you're
congratulating yourself on nailing that curve perfectly, you arrive at
the following curve slightly quicker than usual and run straight off
into the fence.
Yet every time around, I'm tempted to try it again. So now I nail the
first curve just right, hang onto it through the second curve, and
promptly get spit out into the forest on the third curve. Too cool.
There are so many sections like that where you have to recognise a
particular curve, not for the difficulty of this one curve, but for
the difficulty of the next three or four curves that immediately
follow in the series.
But it's so frustrating, as you said, to have "invested" an entire
9-minute lap only to crash again at the exact same spot as last time!
Instead, I've tried breaking it up into sections. I'll run a short
section at speed, then stop, turn around, run it backwards, then try
it again, until it feels okay. Then I'll move on to the next section
and practice that for a while. But I STILL haven't managed to string
the whole thing together for one successful lap!
-Ferdinand-
