Thanks so much everyone for your comments. Someone made a suggestion, since
my car has an auto tranny, that I learn to do left-foot braking. It would
help shave some time off my runs. Is it that helpful?
-Arnold
"Gee, Brain. What are we going to do tonight?"
"Same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try and take over the world!"
>From: "Jeremy Rine" <geratol@hotmail.com>
>To: the_brain7@hotmail.com, ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: Re: braking...
>Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 23:36:05
>
>I would say make sure you have done all your braking before the apex.
>
>I was having some problems at Mather last weekend in that I was going way
>too fast into the turns. For my last run I did about twice as much
>breaking on the hairpins and improved my time by over a second. I also
>rode with some other cars in my class to find out that I was coming into
>the turns too close and that if I started wider and took a late apex I
>would be able to come out of the turn with more speed. This was my first
>event where the old saying "be fast in the fast parts, slow in the slow
>parts" really made more sense to me.
>
>-Jeremy Rine
>#12 STN
>
>----Original Message Follows----
>From: "Clifford Richardson" <the_brain7@hotmail.com>
>To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
>Subject: braking...
>Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 14:22:04 -0700
>
>I was at the event at Mather this past Sunday. The course was the longest
>I've ever been on (4th event and counting) and a lot of fun. I posted
>horrible times, but I made up for it in the fun runs. There was this
>especially deceptive left turn towards the last stretch that caused a
>number
>of drivers to spin out. It starts out mild and got tighter b4 curving back
>to the right. I can extremely close to stopping my car in that turn to
>avoid
>hitting a cone during one of my official runs. That notably cost me more
>than the one second I would've had if I'd just hit the damn cone...might've
>taken more than just one though...
>
>Ok, now on to my point/question; on my second fun run, I shaved off 2.6
>secs
>of my best official run. One of the things I did differently was braking
>HARD right before entering that wicked turn. It allowed me to go through
>the
>turn much more gracefully and accelerate out of it. In previous runs, I was
>fighting for control all the way through the turn and was going awfully
>slow
>by the time it straightened out. My question to you veterans out there: on
>sharp turns where braking HAS to be done, is it better to brake BEFORE
>entering the turn or brake "as needed" during the turn? (both on street and
>racing tires)I understand that because of the nature of my tires and
>relatively low-torque on my car, my options might be slightly different. Oh
>also, is the braking behavior different with FWD vs RWD?
>
>My question may be a bit vague, but that's pretty much the best I can
>explain it for now. I welcome any comment in regards to braking. Thanks.
>
>-Arnold
>"Gee, Brain. What are we going to do tonight?"
>"Same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try and take over the world!"
>
>
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