Hey chaps
Lovely to see so many new people getting involved this thread and asking questions, using the brains that have offered up so much in the way of experience and expertise. Top stuff...
Progress report from me; yep you guessed it... Thursday night means Maritime night. Yet another top night and more learned.
The week before I was lucky enough to marshal right next to the top driver at Maritime who seems to never miss, so whilst this is not liked, I watched his stick action for a couple of laps, (I know I should have been watching the track, but I wasn't, so sea with it hahaha) This driver in question used his brakes on on almost four corners which absolutely shocked me. It wasn't much, after seeing his stick control and the notices what corners these brakes were applied I didn't see the car obviously locking up and wriggling through the corners...
SlowOne, would you say this is recommended? It seems like it goes right against the idea of keeping all the energy in the car and balanced, if you only going to slam on the brakes and unsettle it quite a bit. Then last night, I heard another top 3 driver talking about brakes etc... I didn't try it, although many would as it seems a plague in this RC world, "if the top driver do it, then it should be done" but I thought slightly more laterally... And fed he throttle a little more.
What I means is, instead of shutting the throttle off and coasting into a corner, waiting for the corner to pass and then accelerating out the other side, but having too much speed essentially because the coast would happen too late, I just eased off the throttle, so the speed dropped slightly and then fed the throttle through the corner, the turn in was like night and day!!! Holy moly, it grabbed at quite an alarming rate and hugged the carpet that much better and I in turn carried more speed.
What is really hard is the ability to ease off the throttle slightly earlier than normal but keep the throttle on, than keeping the throttle down for longer and then totally shut it off, hope this is making sense, when there is a car up your bum. What I found, I lost the car behind coming out the bend as my lines were better and exit speed improved, more balanced car, happier driver!!
I can't say I managed to do this with any great consistency but jeepers, I chopped off .8 off my best lap time from the week before and managed to once again qualify for the A final! In the A final, out of qualifying 10th on the grid, I whipped past a few and held off some worthy drivers to finish 5th, on yet another productive night. Awesome!!
West Kent on Sunday for some more action, will keep you informed! Haha thoughts on all this waffle, as usual, gratefully received.
Over and out.
Stu
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