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Old 07-02-2013, 06:18 PM
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Originally Posted by etchhead
I got this at tough tracks and my tech attributed it to heat in the fluid. I swapped out from ATE to Motul and tried to be a bit easier on the brakes. Ironically my times went down (Laguna 1:40.8).
Mark, I didn't know i was your tech.

That said yes, most people ( 90% ) of people at the track over use the brakes. It is the most difficult part of the art of being on the track, using your brakes correctly imo.
Takes time before you develop that sense of trust with your car.

Reminds me of my favorite quote of an F1 driver on how to go fast " Less brakes more accelerator " by JMF.

" In practice laps at Spa in 1954, Claes felt that his Maserati was markedly slower than Fangio’s identical one. So he asked Juan Manuel to drive it and see. Fangio did, and returned to the pits after turning several laps at speeds comparable to those in his own car. When Claes asked him how he did it, Fangio responded humbly in his halting English, “Less brakes, more accelerator.”
Old 07-03-2013, 01:52 AM
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Originally Posted by F1CrazyDriver

Mark, I didn't know i was your tech.
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Haha- more of a coach F1. TCD were the ones who wrenched and they can make some fast cars over there!



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