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Originally Posted by Kostamojen
Also, for memory, a track driver could technically get away with having a poor memory, as you really only need to look one or two corners ahead and never remember that much other than where to enter/exit the track, and you have several laps of course to memorize everything, while an auto-x'er needs to memorize the layout a bit before hand and at most during the first run in order to be as quick as possible...
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From a time trials perspective, I can tell you that memorizing the entire track is critical. With the exception of corners that exit onto extremely long straight, every corner exit directly determines the next corner's entry, which effects that corner's exit, and so on.
So you find the corner before the longest straight, and figure out what entry maximizes speed down that straight. Then take the corner before that corner and figure out what line maximizes your entry into the most important corner, and so on all the way around the track.
Then you memorize the line to the point where as you make that 1st turn at the end of the longest straight, you're actually driving to maximize speed off the turn 15 corners from now. If you forget where you are, it can snowball putting you more and more off-line as you go around the track... especially on very technical tracks that lack long straights.
RFR's B configuration is quite like this. Starting at the esses there is only one short straight at the back of the track where you can collect yourself and get back on-line. The rest of the track's corners are all closely linked, and with all the blind apexes at the top of the hill, you better remember where you're going or your throwing away tenths at each corner.