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Old 2008-04-07, 08:30 PM   #50
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My question was slightly rhetorical. In that if you couldn't name them all quickly yourself, my point was made. These are the sorts of things you need to think about while walking as well as when thinking about what you need to change between runs. Don't just walk for the scenery. Look where you need to be looking when you drive it and most importantly, make a plan on how you are going to drive it. You will change the plan between runs, but if you don't have a plan to start with, you don't have a basis for any changes.

And your mileage may very in different cars, but not likely.

1. The increasing radius sweeper at the start effectively ends when you are just past parallel to the taxiway. breaking early into the 225 degree turn after it that leading back into the crossover so you could clip the first two of the 3 inside cones with pointers before tracking out to the 45* wall on the left side was key to getting back on the gas early.

2. Basically the same thing as you got parallel to the taxiway again after the crossover. Giving up speed in that left hander so you could get the car left before the long straight back to the first 180 was probably the most important turn on the course. If you did it right, you were turned right and on the floor unwinding the wheel at least a car length before the "pivot" cone. (And if you did the chicane right, it should have stayed floored until you got to)

3. The first 180. If you waited to long to brake and were more than a couple feet from each of the inside cones in the 180, you were just giving away tenths, and again, you couldn't get back on the gas. Again, you should have been unwinding and floored before the second inside cone.

4. The second "180". It was actually a slightly increasing radius 210 ending in the Chicago box. Again, you had to slow down to get near both inside cones and then a slight unwinding of the wheel to backside the first cone in the Chicago box and actually be turning right already when you got to it again foot to the floor.

5. The left after the Chicago box. Getting right before it and dropping just enough speed there was key to making it through it with the least steering input and the most throttle to setup a nice arc just missing the two outside cones while using all the space between them and setting up for the next arc tight to the cones of the sweeper and into the back side of the first slalom cone. Little if any braking was required for the slalom if you ran the right arc through the corner before it.

It was alse sort of a trick question. there are very few if any circumstances where braking late and possibly missing the line through the next corner is better than braking early. Those were my only 5 braking points.

Wanting to be faster next run is not a plan! Making specific changes to an existing plan for attacking specific elements in the course is! Executing the plan is another story. [/Old Man Soap Box Mode]
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