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I would love to see the apperatice that you work with, and or wear!


Ok, I was taught when I was racing around in my sports cars, like a bad girl back in the 70's, that you don't let off of the gas pedal all of the way doing corners. In fact, you do slow down a bit just before the corner, but then, put on some gas going around it. Just a thought!
 
What Apperatice?


Lifting in a corner can be a bad thing or a good thing... In a "tight" car that the front does not bite well an wants to go strait you lift going in to a corner to shift more weight on to the front tires so they bite an the rear can get light an step out a little to rotate the car threw the corner. Adding power mid corner in that kind of car will make the weight shift to the back an the car will stop turning. In a "loose" car that likes to spin out in a corner letting off to much in the corner will make it spin out so you slow done before turning an add power threw the corner to keep weight shifted back on the rear tires to give them more grip. That is assuming you dont add to much power an spin yourself out under power.

This car is pretty balanced. It is tight going in to corners but not bad. It can take a lot of weight shifting forward without spinning off the throttle. In the brakes though it gets a bit loose. If you add to much power mid corner this car will swap ends very fast an if you add power to early in the corner the weight shifting off the front tires lets them slid an you slide up an hit the outside wall.

The (iRacing) Miata that I was driving in the road race videos shifts weight so easy that it takes very little gas or brakes to get one end or the other light an off the track you go. Its like balancing a ball on your head...

I am editing a video now testing out the Skip Barber formula 2000 car. That car is a dream to drive. It shifts just enough weight to be noticeable but still corner well even if you do everything wrong...

 

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