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Originally Posted by GregWeld
Just another quick "story".
I was 3 days into Bondurant Formula Mazda (open wheel) driving school --- and suddenly there's a CORVETTE in front of me! Odd -- okay -- even odder when I realize the guy is driving over every apex and he has one arm out the window pointing down to the apex when we go over them!
A couple laps of that (and I'm driving my ass off to keep up with the stupid one armed Corvette driver!) and he pulls off ---- and another lap and he's asking me to "come in".
I get "schooled" in "HITTING THE APEXS".... because it appeared that I was just getting near them --- often being a foot wide.... and me thinking that I'd hit them... NO!!! I need to hit them! And a foot wide was unacceptable... and shown on the white board that the foot miss here might have me miss the exit by a foot and I'd be off track. Okay --- from that point on I HIT every apex! It did help the room on the exit.
I know I'm not carrying enough speed when I have lots of room on exit -- and when I watch the video --- I've left entire towns between me and the exit. That's a "BALLS" issue.... apparently mine are quite small.
As Ron dials in the grip and braking on the old girl --- I will try to find a bit more manhood. And a better line should be the result.
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More grip and better brakes directly correlate to bigger balls!!! I'm not kidding either. I am sure you feel much more confident driving the Lotus versus the Mustang because of the fact that is has more grip and much better brakes. Being so light helps a bunch as well.
You have some good lap times and you are only using 50 -75% of the track on exit in some turns!! Think about how fast your times will be with more grip, better brakes, and when you use the whole track.
