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02-09-2015, 04:42 PM
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02-09-2015, 04:55 PM
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Latest iteration of my articles here: https://clubregistration.net/articles/raceCoach/
...In my view, one of the true differentiating skills of the art of high performance track driving and racing is elegant footwork on downshifts.
...In my view, one of the true differentiating skills of the art of high performance track driving and racing is elegant footwork on downshifts.
Being in a 240HP car, it always put a smile on my face to be doing the 5-4-3-2 going into T12 at COTA and being all over the back bumper of high kilobuck machine that left me on the straight after T11
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02-09-2015, 05:44 PM
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Hmmm, being in a 185 HP car it puts a big frown on my face when that happens lap after lap.
02-09-2015, 06:44 PM
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I can appreciate the tech behind dual clutch paddle shifting, but I'm also old school. I want to drive the car, not have some computer doing the blipping for me. YMMV.
-Mike
02-09-2015, 06:45 PM
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I'm in the middle of reading Mark Donohue's "The Unfair Advantage" and he said he never saw the sense in downshifting as the Europeans do - sequentially through the gears. He said you just slow the car down enough and give it a blip to go into the gear you want.
At Sebring I have real trouble going from 5 down to 2 in T7. One of the guys I was pitting with said he would go 5-4-2 and that worked out well for me.
I know...........this is heresy but I thought it was a lot better than going 5-2. Thoughts?
Good article. Inspired by another Rennlist thread? Will we see an article on shuffle steering in the future?
At Sebring I have real trouble going from 5 down to 2 in T7. One of the guys I was pitting with said he would go 5-4-2 and that worked out well for me.
I know...........this is heresy but I thought it was a lot better than going 5-2. Thoughts?
Good article. Inspired by another Rennlist thread? Will we see an article on shuffle steering in the future?
02-09-2015, 07:27 PM
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I didn't mean to imply that it happened every lap, but I can see how you read it that way. Let's face it, COTA is a HP track, so a decently driven 500HP car is going to get away. The ones that were slower, did give point-bys, so it was all good.
I can appreciate the tech behind dual clutch paddle shifting, but I'm also old school. I want to drive the car, not have some computer doing the blipping for me. YMMV.
-Mike
I can appreciate the tech behind dual clutch paddle shifting, but I'm also old school. I want to drive the car, not have some computer doing the blipping for me. YMMV.
-Mike
02-09-2015, 07:55 PM
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Hmm. Maybe I will address what some call shuffle steering in a future article...
04-23-2015, 09:24 AM
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04-23-2015, 06:50 PM
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Not only apexes, but track in/out point as well. I'm usually pretty good about apexes, but I tend to pull away from the outside track in point and sometimes don't unwind enough for track out - all of which tighten the radius in the same way as missing apexes. An instructor in the right seat can help immensely with this.
I've been to COTA three times. Each time I've regretted not using the curbs more.
<--- Wish I had done that a lot more.
-Mike
I've been to COTA three times. Each time I've regretted not using the curbs more.
<--- Wish I had done that a lot more.
-Mike
