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Re: New Car and New Garage
Todd:
What mods did you have Tom make? I assume 5 speed. I know you alreayd had Koni's and Ground Control. I think you will find the SVX a really fun track toy. I hopoe you avoid the overheating problem.
A few words of wisdom:
trailbraking - carefully done, helps the car rotate. On most turns, you should be braking as you head into the apex, instead of accelerating. That also helps you get front end bite and better turn in. That also helps you carry more speed into the corner without excessive understeer.
Full accelerator as you begin to let the car run out after the apex. Full power on with a lot of steering cranked in just gives you a lot of understeer.. In some really tight corners, I come in trail braking, let up on the brakes, then crank the wheel hard over to get my turning done, then full accelerator as I loosen my grip on the wheel and let it straighten out naturally.
At first, I had a tendency to get on the accelerator too early. I woulfd be on full power well before the apex. That was before I really internalized the friction circle. If you are turning and accelerating fully, you will be in a 4 wheel drift, but, it will be unstable. Sometimes the rear end will begin to come around and there is nothing you can do about it, except countersteer, assuming you have room on the pavement. If you've already tracked out pretty far, you may be cutting some grass.
The better line is to carry more speed into the corner, gently braking into the apex, then get down hard on the accelerator at a point where you canbegin to let it track out. Once you get that down, it flies. From this, you can see that the car likes a very late apex. Get your turning done early, under trail-braking, then your acceleration run out of the corner will be straighter. Believe it or not, your exit speed will be higher, because you carried more speed into the corner and had less scrub coming out.
The rain is wonderful. All of a sudden, you are the fastest car on the track.
I haven't been on the track in 4 months, I guess you can tell. It's a real hunger.
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