Josh Sirota writes:
> On Mar 21, 11:27am, Scott Fisher writes:
> > (Tim found out the hard way not to lift after turn-in when banzaiing
> > into Turn 6 ... :-( )
> >
> > Into *6*? I never pushed it hard in 6, partly because I knew I
>
> Except that 6 is SO steep uphill that it was easy to banzai into it without
> being afraid. Once you'd done it once you could do it over and over again.
In the first session I was braking for six, because I'm a chicken at heart
and it never occurred to me that I could blast through it. Then at the
debriefing Tim was telling our instructor about how he was going through
6 flat-out and didn't even have to use the whole track to do it. Blush.
So I tried it, and finally did get to take it flat-out by the end of the
day. As Scott observes, though:
> > It's very different to be in a
> > car that doesn't lean at 45 dgree angles, and in which you can
> > take turn 4 flat out -- no brake, no lift. I never tried that in
It's a lot easier to do things like that in a car which corners flat
like a DSP X1/9 ... Though I think I was lifting for 4.
> I did, almost. Just lifted at turn in ... that's a really nice turn.
> Same with 3, except that on 3 I came really really really close to the
> edge most times, and one time got 2 wheels off. The exit of 4 was much
3 was so much fun! That one I could take flat-out, and in fact I was
even getting sloppy and early-apexing (and got wheels off in the dirt
several times to point out the error of my ways). Never did have the
self-control to get that apex right ...
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