N4 Rockingham Help!!

Are there any tricks for getting around Rockingham? I cant do better than 150 mph per lap. I downloaded a setup and its ok, but the car is really loose in 3,4? I think, whichever end has less banking. Anyway, Id really appreciate any pointers. Thanks.. Dave P.S. Real address not given out for spam reasons.

What's that in time? I don't have my speed-time comvertor on this 'puter and I don't use speed. Speed isn't really a tangible measure of getting around a track to me. Dave <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:a52rah$9bo$[email hidden]... > Are there any tricks for getting around Rockingham? I cant do better than > 150 mph per lap. I downloaded a setup and its ok, but the car is really > loose in 3,4? I think, whichever end has less banking. Anyway, Idreally

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> appreciate any pointers. > > Thanks.. > > Dave > > P.S. Real address not given out for spam reasons. > >

"Dave" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:a52rah$9bo$[email hidden]... > Are there any tricks for getting around Rockingham? I cant do better than > 150 mph per lap. I downloaded a setup and its ok, but the car is really > loose in 3,4? I think, whichever end has less banking. Anyway, Idreally > appreciate any pointers. > > Thanks.. > > Dave It sounds like you are having problems in turns 1-2 they are the ones with the least banking. Go in real easy hugging the apron (not on the apron) at the apex start to feed the throttle, and point the car on an angle to the outside wall exiting 2. While getting back into the gas completely easing parallel to the outter wall headed for 3-4. Go in 3-4 easy but once you are along the bottom in 3-4 go full throttle using the same technique for pointing the car as I described exiting 1-2. This is what I do anyways. HTH - Isotrip�

I think the banking is really irrelavent at NC (aka Rockingham) since 1-2 are 22deg and 3-4 are only 25deg . The difference is you are approaching 1-2 while turning (a not so straight front straight). Try lifting as you get to the last track condition indicator light on the wall before T1, maybe draggin the brake a little. Get to the bottom by/near the apex and ease back into full throttle by the begining of T2 (just past the apex). If you enter T1 too close to the apron, you will push out toward the wall. If you delay your entry a little, the banking will help you get down to the bottom (nearly a 1.5 story drop from wall to apron). Same for T3, come in toward the high side and use the banking to get to down to the bottom and exit near the T4 wall. A good setup will do this nearly by itself as turning left coming out of 4 too much will cause the car to swap ends in a hurry. Isotrip� <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:3c754816$[email hidden]... > "Dave" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:a52rah$9bo$[email hidden]... > > Are there any tricks for getting around Rockingham? I cant do betterthan

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> > 150 mph per lap. I downloaded a setup and its ok, but the car is really > > loose in 3,4? I think, whichever end has less banking. Anyway, Id > really > > appreciate any pointers. > > > > Thanks.. > > > > Dave > > > It sounds like you are having problems in turns 1-2 they are the ones with > the least banking. Go in real easy hugging the apron (not on the apron) at > the apex start to feed the throttle, and point the car on an angle to the > outside wall exiting 2. While getting back into the gas completely easing > parallel to the outter wall headed for 3-4. Go in 3-4 easy but once you

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> along the bottom in 3-4 go full throttle using the same technique for > pointing the car as I described exiting 1-2. This is what I do anyways. > > HTH > > - Isotrip� > >

"Dave" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:<a52rah$9bo$[email hidden]>...

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> Are there any tricks for getting around Rockingham? I cant do better than > 150 mph per lap. I downloaded a setup and its ok, but the car is really > loose in 3,4? I think, whichever end has less banking. Anyway, Id really > appreciate any pointers. > > Thanks.. > > Dave > > P.S. Real address not given out for spam reasons.

I find I get into trouble if I don't give myself plenty of room to run out of the turns. Stay low all the way through the turns and be easy on the gas until you are nearly all the way through. You want to have your wheel pretty much unwound before getting back to full throttle. Getting on the apron is usually disastrous as well. If you have to go up high in the turns, you can't really jump on the gas until you are in the straight.

"SimRacer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:c2bd8.26427$[email hidden]... > What's that in time? I don't have my speed-time comvertor on this 'puterand > I don't use speed. Speed isn't really a tangible measure of getting arounda > track to me. > > This is by NO means absolute...but a general generalization. Oval racers quote speed, road racers quote time..... dave henrie

Hey Dave, is there any other kind of generalization? <G> -John "Dave Henrie" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:c4kd8.4168$[email hidden]... > > " > >....... a general generalization. .... > >

Dave Henrie <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:c4kd8.4168$[email hidden]... > > "SimRacer" <[email hidden]> wrote in message > news:c2bd8.26427$[email hidden]... > > What's that in time? I don't have my speed-time comvertor on this 'puter > and > > I don't use speed. Speed isn't really a tangible measure of gettingaround

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> a > > track to me. > > > > > This is by NO means absolute...but a general generalization. Oval > racers quote speed, road racers quote time..... > dave henrie

Sorry Dave, I generally try to be supportive when you get flamed here so I appreciate the reciprocation :rolleyes:. Any hard core oval racer you come across will use time (what do most NASCAR drivers discuss in interviews, time, in case you don't watch NASCAR...). Speed is just an average of how fast you were traveling around the track distance. Time on the other hand, is how long it took you to cover that distance, to me a lot more tangible when comparing 1 lap to the next. I hate to intrude on your 'road course elitest' world, but a lot of us oval racers use time exclusively too.

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> Sorry Dave, I generally try to be supportive when you get flamed here so I > appreciate the reciprocation :rolleyes:. Any hard core oval racer you come > across will use time (what do most NASCAR drivers discuss in interviews, > time, in case you don't watch NASCAR...). Speed is just an average of how > fast you were traveling around the track distance. Time on the other hand, > is how long it took you to cover that distance, to me a lot more tangible > when comparing 1 lap to the next. I hate to intrude on your 'road course > elitest' world, but a lot of us oval racers use time exclusively too.

yeah I know...thats why I tried to generalize it. Plenty of real world drivers talk about only the tenths of a second because they are all so close....i.e. we did 7's all day....when what he meant was 1:43.7's but what the hey...I guess I should have said...Online Tallyheads generally quote speed, dedicated simmers quote time...(now who will that upset?) :> dave henrie

i thought i would give it a try, i had a 149.3 but could do no better, so i thought i will go slow and learn the entrances and exits to the corners, what a surprise the first lap was a 150.6 with the standard qualifying setup for the rock. slower=faster on to vegas now