10-28-2018, 12:13 PM
No. No. No and no again, my friends. This morning, nice and fresh, I did 20 laps, really, really focusing on what was happening from lap to lap.
Apart from a couple of inevitable crashes, ALL the laps were between 14:5 and 15.2. This - it seems to me - confirms that I am certainly not the fastest guy around, but I know what I am doing and I can be quite consistent.
Now, a couple of important remarks:
1) At this speed, the car feels like on soap. It feels always at the limit of flying away. That is, I am not consistent by being conservative, I am consistent at what I perceive as the limit of the car.
And, more importantly:
2) Like always, inevitable variations of line from lap to lap lead to inevitable swings in the delta bar. BUT what I would gain or lose would be one, two, maybe three tenths. Over a lap, things average out, so I am consistent between 14.5 and 15.2. NO WAY ON EARTH I could get a second here, a second there. This is inconceivable.
Come on the throttle earlier? Been there, done that (maybe even only by chance): result, a couple of tenths gained. Trail braking when possible? Same story, a tenth, may be two or three. I observed carefully and I have seen it happening, lap after lap, and I remain with the the bottom line question.
WHERE THE HELL DOES ONE GET SIX SECONDS?
Apart from a couple of inevitable crashes, ALL the laps were between 14:5 and 15.2. This - it seems to me - confirms that I am certainly not the fastest guy around, but I know what I am doing and I can be quite consistent.
Now, a couple of important remarks:
1) At this speed, the car feels like on soap. It feels always at the limit of flying away. That is, I am not consistent by being conservative, I am consistent at what I perceive as the limit of the car.
And, more importantly:
2) Like always, inevitable variations of line from lap to lap lead to inevitable swings in the delta bar. BUT what I would gain or lose would be one, two, maybe three tenths. Over a lap, things average out, so I am consistent between 14.5 and 15.2. NO WAY ON EARTH I could get a second here, a second there. This is inconceivable.
Come on the throttle earlier? Been there, done that (maybe even only by chance): result, a couple of tenths gained. Trail braking when possible? Same story, a tenth, may be two or three. I observed carefully and I have seen it happening, lap after lap, and I remain with the the bottom line question.
WHERE THE HELL DOES ONE GET SIX SECONDS?
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An Old Dog Learning New Tricks
An Old Dog Learning New Tricks