Chris Marsh wrote:
> >
> >Now, obviously it is possible to get more than 100% usage out of
> >a car. Not only from peaks in each of the axises but also from
> >making the car do things outside the limits such as rotating the
> >car to travel around a turn without losing as much momentum.
>
> I don't quite follow, seems to me your saying there is some maximal usage of
> the car that results in THE best time, that would be 100% and you can't go
> past that, meaning for the entire course at any individual point you are
> using the car as much as possible at that point. Seems to me the fact is
> that Daddio and others are closer to this point than anyone else, but in
> reality nobody probably is actually at that point.
I'm saying that a car, always on the limits of the friction circle
(and for those of you who want to get picky, moving between the
extremes as efficiently as possible) will have a theoretical minimum
time on a course. That's at the limits of traction of the car. Most
of us exceed those limits every now and then, sometimes to the point
of making us even faster...
--Darren
|