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[FASTFATBOY]

Nice to meet you Glen, had a blast at Eagles Canyon.

My best lap that I saw( they clipped me for getting lap times, she wasn't supposed to give them out) was a 2:22. I was on street tires(cheapo Maxxis 300 treadwear) with no brake ducts. Did have my Carbotech pads on the car.

Class of the field was LG Motorsports ZR1 with a 1:59 lap.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1...mp;l=c16e3348e5

Will add videos soon.


Video of my final run, could not catch the Lambo, but he didnt pull much on me if any.

http://youtu.be/YaWKqlQabZI

This post has been edited by FASTFATBOY: Jun 11 2012, 02:36 AM

[Blainefab]

http://youtu.be/YaWKqlQabZI

Look ahead, way ahead. Look at the exit of the corner before you turn in. Your brain will plot a course if it knows where you are going. You are getting surprised and correcting multiple times per corner.

Smooth out your steering inputs - a turn should be one motion into the apex, one motion out. Your tires are nice and talkative - use this to your advantage. You should hear a squeal that starts soft and build gradually to your maximimum cornering load, then tapers off gradually as you track out. Screeches from the tires indicate a mistake.

Use all the track

[FASTFATBOY]

http://youtu.be/YaWKqlQabZI

Look ahead, way ahead. Look at the exit of the corner before you turn in. Your brain will plot a course if it knows where you are going. You are getting surprised and correcting multiple times per corner.

Smooth out your steering inputs - a turn should be one motion into the apex, one motion out. Your tires are nice and talkative - use this to your advantage. You should hear a squeal that starts soft and build gradually to your maximimum cornering load, then tapers off gradually as you track out. Screeches from the tires indicate a mistake.

Use all the track

Thanks Alan for the pointers, new tracks tend to intimidate me especially ones like that where alot of corners and brake zones are "hidden".

This was the first time I was back on street tires after being on the NT-05's, hard to "de-tune" the brain to slow down for the tires, I was all over the place.

I catch myself correcting my turn in point a lot, I am working on it.

[Blainefab]

I catch myself correcting my turn in point a lot, I am working on it.

The key is looking ahead - Once you have a view of the whole corner, your brain and muscles will put the car where it needs to go. You have to know where you are going to be. This is a simple concept but difficult to overcome years of driving on the street looking at the bumper ahead.

I have coached folks with this problem in the extreme by calling out where to look at every turn in point, and for those laps that I was doing that they got dramatically smoother. As soon as I shut up they reverted back to dropping their vision and being lost.

I trained myself to look ahead, on the street - look at the road horizon, where it disappears from view. That point may be beyond a bridge or a curve or such. It's one race driving technique that can be practiced on the street, every day, legally.

This post has been edited by Blainefab: Jun 12 2012, 11:15 AM

[BryanL]

Nice to meet you Glen, had a blast at Eagles Canyon.

My best lap that I saw( they clipped me for getting lap times, she wasn't supposed to give them out) was a 2:22. I was on street tires(cheapo Maxxis 300 treadwear) with no brake ducts. Did have my Carbotech pads on the car.

Class of the field was LG Motorsports ZR1 with a 1:59 lap.

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.1...mp;l=c16e3348e5

Will add videos soon.


Video of my final run, could not catch the Lambo, but he didnt pull much on me if any.

http://youtu.be/YaWKqlQabZI

Hope you had a great time on the Tour and the autocross/road course. Would love to see more info. on the cars running and the lap times at Eagles Canyon. Why didn't they want to give out the lap times? Anywhere I can go see pics of the cars and their lap times?

[CrashTestDummy]

I catch myself correcting my turn in point a lot, I am working on it.

The key is looking ahead - Once you have a view of the whole corner, your brain and muscles will put the car where it needs to go. You have to know where you are going to be. This is a simple concept but difficult to overcome years of driving on the street looking at the bumper ahead.

I have coached folks with this problem in the extreme by calling out where to look at every turn in point, and for those laps that I was doing that they got dramatically smoother. As soon as I shut up they reverted back to dropping there vision and being lost.

I trained myself to look ahead, on the street - look at the road horizon, where it disappears from view. That point may be beyond a bridge or a curve or such. It's one race driving technique that can be practiced on the street, every day, legally.

And you have to practice it almost every day. I've been autocrossing for decades, and understand the competitive advantage of 'look ahead', but _still_ catch myself not practicing what I know works. Practice this one skill, and you'll be rewarded with fast times on track, and fewer surprises.