Originally posted by "400HP930"
Originally Posted by PseudoRealityX
at FSF, you should try to keep a tighter line. Especially on the backside of the course with the conewalls. Youre going 4 or 5 feet too wide on those. Also, your turn-around was WAY TOO wide. you should have been able to get the car to be able to go straight through the first 2 box gates, without having to turn to the right.
Driving with 2 hands helps too. Try to minimize the amount of turns and smoothly transition from one thing to the next.
Thats just what i picked up. :shrug:
Thanks for the info. Until my first look at the videos I had no idea how much one handed driving I was up to but since that discovery I have been forcing myself to use both.
My lines are also far from being as tight to the course and as sharp as I would like them to be since I am running a really hard set of Toyo street tires making traction is very marginal. I have also been experimenting with how much fuel weight to keep on the front wheels to control the over and understeer tendancies of the car. For these reasons at the last couple of FSF auto-xes I have had really bad understeer so my compromise has been to try to take faster wider turns instead of taking them slower and tighter and then taking a loss from my lack of accelleration.
Thanks again for the critiques since I'm glad to see that you are picking up on the same things that I am currently unhappy with myself.
While I am always looking to improve my skills, fortunately I am also working on my car's traction and acceleration issues.
Taking the tighter line, although counter-intuitive, will be VASTLY quicker. Since youre having issues with acceleration, you should be focusing on where you can keep your speed. Again, the tight line is faster, because you have to turn less. My car is UNGODLY slow in a straight-line, so i know all about a lack of acceleration. How does ~105whp sound?
As for fuel, use the least you can without having fuel starvation. Trying to tune with fuel load is just making you make mistakes in other places. Just drive the car....the rest comes later.