[Oliwier Kaczmarek]

Hi everyone. I was doing some hotlaps on Autodrom Most in the Mini JCW before racing tomorrow and I have a problem. When braking heavily into turn 1, the front tyres start sliding and the whole car spins around. Could somebody please help me with some advice on how to make it more contollable under heavy braking? Thank you!

[Luke Bouwmeester]

The Mini doesn't have any ABS so it will lock pretty easily if you are braking too hard. If it is turning you around when it locks it sounds like it might be the rear brakes that are locking not the fronts. You should have a look in your replay to see which wheel is locking and play around with the brake bias to make it more even. You can also bring down the brake power so you don't have to be so gentle on the pedal.
Remember that a tyre only has a finite amount of grip that needs to be shared between longitudinal and lateral force. If you are braking on the edge of grip and need to turn in to the the corner while still braking, the addition of the lateral force from cornering means you need to reduce the braking force to avoid locking.

[Russell Sobie]

Recently I got my Fanatec CSL Elite Load Cell pedals, so basically I'm completely re-learning how to drive all over again. The folks that tell you that good pedals are more important than excellent force feedback are not bullshitting... but in order to take advantage of the load cell control, it's a fairly steep learning curve.

The Mini started off as a big problem out of all the series this season for me. Something that I found a long time ago but never bothered to install and set up is an app called Esotic Slip HUD, which can be found here: https://www.racedepartment.com/downloads...hud.12143/

Basically it puts an indicator for all 4 tire patches and color codes them based on what they are doing and how they are handling the job you are giving them (braking, turning, accelerating). Mostly I got it to let me know when I was losing lateral grip in real time, but I think it's helped more with braking. You can immediately tell what your tires are doing right when you are doing things to them, and you can stop doing what you are doing before bad things (like spins) happen. It makes setting up Brake Bias to be more even a trivial task, which Luke points out above as the likely reason the Mini is spinning on you.