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Originally Posted by tysonK
I hear that. Dont worry it's still fun, even though you won't out-brake anyone into a turn.
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All we do are time trials and open track days... you should *never* be attempting to out brake someone into a corner.
You shouldn't even be near the guy in front of you... if something goes wrong w/ their car, just like on the street, you need a buffer to allow you time to react and avoid and incident.
For example: at the RFR Audi day a while back, with an instructor in my car, we decided to practice some left foot braking through T5-T6. There was an older Jetta (IIRC) that had been tailing me for a few laps so he was pretty used to my line and was starting to follow pretty close. Well, we went into T5 and I grabbed a little more brake w/ the left foot than I intended a little earlier than normal. Of course I let up right away to get back on line, but to the guy in the Jetta it must have looks like a massive early brake check.
He still had the wheel turned exiting T4 and stomped the brakes... and we all know what happens when you turn and brake... I glanced in my mirror and saw that Jetta almost completely sideways with tire smoke billowing off the rear wheels.
After the session the guy came up to me and actually apologized for tailing me so close (class act guy, it was really my fault not his) I told him I was sorry for not letting him by on the straight before trying a new line... I was just concentrating so hard on listening to my instructor and working on my driving, I plain old forgot some common courtesy.
Anyway, the moral of the story is that the guy in front of you might be an idiot like me and decide to run a new and shitty line, which can get you all sorts of out of sorts if you need to check up mid-corner to avoid them.