do you sacrifice entry and a little mid corner speed in the sweeper to get on the throttle earlier for a good exit? i have a feeling the answer is yes. i hate those corners. i much prefer having a fast, geometric line, through a corner. i guess that separates the men from the boys.

 

i noticed that nils hits his ideal mid corner speed quickly in that corner, gets on the throttle early and will let the car slide a little to track out to the exit berm.

it will probably take more time for me to find the ideal speed so that i don't go in too hot and have to catch the car in the middle of the corner and waste time trying to get it settled, or go in too slow and have to catch up and as a result push through the corner and not get the proper rotation for a good exit.

 

Yeah, since its a big decreasing radius I usually sacrafice a little corner speed to get on the gas early for the esses. The most important turns are the ones that lead onto the longest straights and in this case, since the esses are WOT, I count them as a straight. Its a tough turn. I have tried it two ways. First way is to enter mid track and the second way is to double apex the turn. Either way you take, always do a very late apex coming out onto the esses. Unfortunately I don't have telemetry or engough consistency in my driving to see which way is faster, but I would guess that its whatever way you are comfortable with. The main thing is your exit speed with this turn.

I also hate this turn because of its surface changes right when it starts decreasing its radius. Its a tricky turn for sure, but if its giving you a ton of trouble just use the good ol' slow in-fast out method rather than risking a mistake that can throw your whole lap away.

 

which sweeper are you guys talking about?

 

the one after magic mountain and before the esses.

 

yeah, the surface changes are also a pain in the ***, especially given the track was cold and damp most of the weekend.

 

i also followed dieter (one of the rare times that i was behind him while he was still warming up). he tended to take a mid entry, allowed the car to drift out, rotated, then hit a good, hard exit. he would then proceed to bounce off nearly every berm of esses as he powered out.

 

i guess one question would be, do you guys make a light lift late in the corner for a good rotation or do you just try hang as far out and continue to throttle out of the corner?

 

That's driving Robi-style.

 

Well, I tend to lift a little to get the car to rotate a little. I don't really bounce off the rumble strips too hard, but I am also in a RWD car. If I were driving an EVO I would hit em harder.

 

throttle out of the corner.......

 

Yes Dieter has picked up a few of my bad habits...lol

 

berm jumping is fun, but riding with deiter in his street e55 amg in the rain was a blast. tank slappers, rally crossing through the mud...good times.

 

Dieter's GRANDMA'S merc lol

 

So I just got back from the GT Live event, taking place at Miller Motorsports Park (Utah). On the schedule... Redline Time Attack. Why two events scheduled on the same weeked in the same part of the country?

We had the Crawford STI here, AMS Evo, and a local guy by the name of Vesko, all running together.The separation in the morning was .3 seconds from AMS to Vesko and then .3 seconds from Vesko to Crawford. The afternoon had the AMS car 1.5 seconds ahead of Crawford and Crawford 1.1 seconds ahead of Vesko. There was also a smattering of GT2 and GT3s, which were 2 seconds faster than AMS. Tarzan Yamada, in the Subaru of America Grand AM Legacy GT wagon was out there, about 20 seconds back, and then Tanguchi in a late-model JDM Integra Type R about 12 seconds behind AMS.

-Jon