> Maybe someone can point out where I'm making my mistakes:
first impression: you need to practice pushing the car and getting
it a bit loose:) if you're not accelerating around most of the corners
without hearing the wheels fractionally squealing and feeling the
tail*** out marginally, you're too slow.
this seems to be fairly personal. some people change earlier, some
later. i think i'm one of hte slightly earlier changing people.
I go through Turn 1 in mid-3rd, lining hte car up before i reach the
apex and totally blasting from that point, having hte car on the
right side of the track in the little straight after, changing to
4th just as i enter Turn 2. i ease off here to line up the
corner then nail it again the instant i know i'm lined up, and have
the car entering Turn 3 right against the right hand railing, full
accelerator, tail*** loose (not too loose or i get no
increase in speed at all) and as the car is drifting out to the left
side of the track on the corner exit i'm changing up into 5th for
the straight.
That's on a good lap:) sometimes i get alittle loose in Turn 2 and
end up stuck to the left railing in turn 3 :) oops.
you want to hit the brakes exactly as the big sign on the left
vanishes from view to be sure you won't fly off into the hay (a
favorite trick of mine), and try hard not to lock the brakes. if you
get good at braking you can brake a little later here i think.
I go through this turn in 3rd, double apexing. don't like to use
2nd here since that involves a gear change while in the middle of
accelerating out. if i am lucky and don't get the rear too loose and
spin, i can exit the turn and be at about 8500 rpm as the car finally
straightens, normally only 8000rpm though.
noooooooo bad bad bad:) full speed! this, i think, is the fastest
point on the track. leading up to the braking point for turn 6 I
am certain i am going even quicker than down the front straight.
hit the brakes in the little patch where the best-line is lighter
for a moment just before the fence on the right disappears, I use
3rd for this right hander (some use 2nd), then blast out of here,
full accelerator (or nearly full)*** the car real wide around
turn 7 (the left hander), to stand on the brakes for the ***
right Turn 8, which i do in 2nd. I don't use first here bceause that
always spins me out because the high torque locks up my rear wheels.
Using 2nd i only spin 50% of hte time instead :)
This corner is evil. the number of times i've ruined a really really
good lap by spinning into the home stretch and vainly seeing the
finish line in the distnace is just too often to count.
This gets me around the 1:09.0 mark, or down to 1:08.5 if i did
a particularly smooth lap. but, i only complete a good lap about
20% of the time - I'm still pretty fond of all the very closeup
views of fences, spectators, hay bails, grass, etc:)
This is only my particular style of driving. i think it's a bit
loose, and probably not as fast as it could be, but it's fun:)
good luck:)
Grant.
