Originally posted by nunyo
I made zero changes to the car and went from last weekend being 5.2 PAX seconds back from Danny to this weekend being 0.46 PAX seconds back. I am VERY happy with the results.
Good job! And good driving points. "Slow down to go faster" is a hard concept to explain and get across to people. Sounds like Danny has found a good way to explain it.
My big enlightenment of the day was proving to myself that an extra shift really DOES cost time. I was running 41.2 right out of the box and 4 of my first 6 runs were consistently right there in spite of my tweaking around with shock settings. (the car felt better, but was no faster!) On this course, there was a hardish turn after the slalom that fed into the finish straight. I had been downshifting to first at the end of that slalom to get better acceleration through the straight. On my 7th run, I decided to leave it in second. That run was .7 seconds faster! Sometimes it's the stupid, obvious little things that bite you.
I need to get some better tires so I can keep up.