I gave up a long time ago on the "conservative first run"
philosophy.You only get 3 shots at it. I go ALL OUT on my first run
to find the obvious tough spots and then try to fine tune any
places where I need to speed up, slow down, or change line.
The hardest part for me is thinking ahead to the next turn or 2.
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From: owner-autox@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-autox@autox.team.net]On
Behalf Of Kent Rafferty
Sent: Tuesday, September 19, 2000 12:40 PM
To: autox@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: (Long) Comments on Nationals/M3/ESP (skip to end for ESP
conclusions)
I can suggest what NOT to do. If I try to drive
conservative-and-clean, it typically turns out to be
clean-and-dog slow and the run is wasted anyway. On
the North course, I ran conservatively, but I though
respectably, on my first run. I was just flat-out
slow. My second run, when I drove angry :-), was 2.6
seconds faster than my first run. I'm going to tape
the first run timeslip to my dashboard to remind me
that if I'm in total control of the car on course and
confident I'm not going to hit any cones, I'm driving
WAY too slow.....
Kent Rafferty
Randy wrote:
> What is the best strategy, or does it become
>determined by your competition and what happens? You
>always have to go fast, but do you make sure you first
>get a clean run in and then push it on your 2nd and
3rd
>runs? That seems to make sense.
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