The Mighty Puck wrote ...
Someone else here mentions Alison Hine's site. Wander around in there and
you'll pick up a lot of tips. The thing I picked up that helped me the most
was an understanding of the forward-rearward tilting of the car under
acceleration, braking, and elevation changes. If you're regularly losing
the rear end on a corner, it may be that you need to enter a little slower
and have your foot part-way in the gas going through, putting more weight
(traction) on the rears.
Now that I can qualify in the top ten regularly, I've used GPLSpyGirl to
check my laps against the rockets. I find that invariably the fast cars are
slowing a little more than I am going into the corners, and getting much
better speed coming off, which they then have advantage of throughout the
straight. There's a lot of truth to the saying that if you go a little
slower, you'll go faster.
I find the Brabham the most difficult to drive. The easiest for me is the
Coventry, although it's nowhere near the fastest. But while you're
learning, easy is much more profitable than fast.
I've never tried that, but I have to believe left foot braking would be an
advantage. You don't realize how much you need to steer the car with the
brakes and gas. There are times when you're gently using both alternatively
to give you the best trip through a corner.
I don't know, I'm still driving like Rockford in Rockford, but I'm getting
there and the trip is a blast!
