[Pete Parisetti]

Knowing some of the guys who are 4s faster, im fairly certain they catch all the apexes and ideal exit lines on their pb or pole laps, you don't have that to begin with. So practice it, my guess from the video is you don't look far enough in the corners, since you track out a lot artificially, which means you could have been on power a lot earlier. Driving on track is mostly a matter of eye/head movements, the car will just go where your eyes are pointing at basically. You can probably trim 2-3s easily, then it gets more complicated, fine details and techniques.

Thank you James but we seem to see very different things in the video... I just looked at it again, and here is what I see. Turn 1, I am on the throttle a couple of metres before the apex, and I hit the apex precisely. Turn 2 I am less than a foot off the apex, and the throttle is on. Turn 3 exactly like turn 1. Turn 4 is missing in the video. Turn 5, right on the apex and throttle on immediately after that. Turn 6 I am a couple of feet wide of the apex. I normally have the inside wheels over the curb, and I was a bit wide in this lap. Still, delta difference is negligible. Etcetera. I don't really see how I could be on the throttle "a lot earlier", I really can't. Also, after over 600 hours in the sim and hundreds of laps at Zandvoort, the notion that I could "trim 2-3 s easily" is incomprehensible to me. That is the reason why I posted the video. I was hoping to show that on most corners my line is essentially the same the fast guys take (I checked and re-checked the race replays), that I could not realistically accelerate any earlier. I understand and accept that my technique is far from perfect and that I certainly lose time here and there. Also, the lap in the video is in race conditions, where I am extra-careful to finish and have no incidents. But still, 2-3 seconds? No, sorry, I still really don't get it. I don't want to be stubborn, and I am happy to accept that I simply don't have the skills - I just would like to understand. And I very much appreciate your and everybody's time in engaging in this discussion.