Track forum

[NoHachi]

In my opinion people turn to improving their car to soon. You go out to a track, turn a couple of laps, then a couple more and keep improving your time.
Somewhere along the way, the improvements in laptime keep getting smaller and smaller until in the end, you suspect that you're getting the most out of the car. Maybe not for an entire lap, but you can imagine some sort of ultimate laptime you could run when you add up all your best sectortimes.

The funny thing is what happens when you let someone who can really drive take the car out for a spin. Usually they not only obliterate your best laptime, but realise a significant improvement on your theoretical best time as well.

If you are lucky you pick up a couple of points where you can improve your own driving style. Sometimes even a complete new channel of communication between you and the car. You have to totally change the way you have been driving before and start from the beginning (usually posting slower laptimes then before).

That for me is the brilliant thing about track driving. The stopwatch is king.
Striving for fast laptimes, changing techniques, sometimes it even feels as if you are driving on a completely different track then before.
Some corners I drift, some I desperately strive to keep the car in line, because I know that an unsettling bump is coming up soon. It adresses all of your driving skills and demands total concentration. An all round sport.