Subject: Re: Questoins about road racing/autocrossing.... by BillH on 2008/11/29 13:22:04
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Aardwolf wrote:
Yes, cooked the HPS in two laps. My instructor asked why I was exiting already LOL took the turn 5 run off at Road America. Slowed enough to make the tire chicane. I've seen people go realllly slow their first times so you could do that if you wanted to. After finding how much use the pad would take then I had to coast, reduce top speed, brake way earlier, all things I hate and are no fun to me. Well a little fun to learn the limit of the pad. It's pretty shocking your first time to go for the brakes and the car isn't slowing down. So I recomend track pads!
I hope your auto trans doesn't over heat.
It's rare that someone uses their brakes like that in their first event, maybe 2 or 3% of the drivers and that's OK. But some of those 3% have to be told to slow down because they're basically out of control, not hitting the apexes or the lines. A few do get it right, hit the lines and use their brakes hard, very few.
Most don't and I'd much rather see guys concentrating on lines, consistant brake points, etc. on their first time out.
