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Post by lesbaldry on Sept 17, 2008 7:05:10 GMT
another factor is wot we r doin whilst driving, sum of us concerntrate on wot we r doin and others drift off and b4 we know it the race is over. ive sumtimes noticed when i snap out of my day dream because sum1s catching me, im standing awkwardly on 1 foot and it aches like mad, do u lot do this too or is it just me  Yes Dan I somtimes drift of to another planet half way through a race,take a trip on the grass and blame a wasp and hope no one was watching ,why too do you get an akward itch in an akward place during your best qually at the 4min warning?? ;D...seriously though,for all the years I have been racing I still get the "nerves" the trany feels like a feather, you cant feel the sticks and tend to grip it too hard hmmmm odd?..for me to drive quick I need to be in an aggresive frame of mind "hard to do when you are having a laugh with your mates"..perhaps we need to distance our selfs from each other and be miserable sods....."no way!!" I would rather drive slightly slower  |
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Post by oldtimeracer on Sept 18, 2008 12:34:44 GMT
Funny Les, I thought you were a miserable sod all the time anyway!
A lot of speed is lost in stock particulary by not being able to carry corner speed. Again a lot of this is set up. I know from having Simon follow me that he manages to carry a lot more speed through the corners than I do but I seem to be able to hit the power earlier. The old saying slow in fast out maybe. However this has also taught me that my car is set up differently. When Simon tried it he could not drive the same as if he was using his car as mine understeered way too much for him. I quite like it to be that way but again a personal preference. There is as we know, very little difference in top end speeds between similar cars so any "extra" speed must be made up in the corners. Thsi as Les points out quite rightly, is down to getting that set up right. Trying different things may make the car feel strange but may well result in faster laps. As we al know when your car feels planted but seems slow seems to be when you put in your fastest laps.
I just wish I knew what I was doing with set ups. To know what a change SHOULD do is something I have yet to come to grips with.
Good job Dr Les is around to put me right!
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Post by lesbaldry on Sept 18, 2008 13:32:52 GMT
Chrissy convinced me you are the Doctor..she says you are allways asking to play "Doctors and nurses "with her! ;D..I allways wonderd what you two got up too while Im racing ;)she's got a nurses uniform,if you ask her nicely............................... Ps nice to hear from you  |
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Post by oldtimeracer on Sept 18, 2008 13:47:13 GMT
I prefer her in the Burlesque one actually Les. Has she shown you that one yet?
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Post by lesbaldry on Sept 18, 2008 13:54:19 GMT
I prefer her in the Burlesque one actually Les. Has she shown you that one yet? No, only the french maids...were my ceiling lights ok or too bright to show the wrinlkles?? We'ed beter stop this befor we get told off ....Ok,well Ian what motor do you prefer...................................................................  |
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Post by oldtimeracer on Sept 18, 2008 14:00:09 GMT
Yeah they were fine Les. The mirror is a bit crooked though.
Anyway back on topic before we get banned. Oh sorry, thought I was on Racechat for a minute.
There was a post some time ago about where you look when racing. Do you look at your car, just ahead of it or somewhere else (skywards in Dans case). My point is do the faster drivers look at a different point to the rest of us? I find myself only looking directly at my car. I have tried looking just ahead of it but then seem to crash a a lot. Any ideas?
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Post by lesbaldry on Sept 18, 2008 16:09:38 GMT
I look directly at the car and rely on peripheral awareness and try and react to my known braking/turn in points.
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Post by Simon Crabb on Sept 18, 2008 18:07:23 GMT
I look directly at the car and rely on peripheral awareness and try and react to my known braking/turn in points. Last night indoors in an 8 car mini race I found myself consciously 'looking' at what was going on in my periphery, when there's that many cars and only 10 second laps there's often stationary cars and marshalls etc in the track, so knowing there's 'something' in the track a corner or two ahead can really keep you out of trouble. And we've often been in a race where there's an exciting battle going on elsewhere, sometimes you can be racing away and half watching what is going on at the same time! The brain is amazing, it'll cope with loads of information thrown at it all at once and make sense of it - speed reading is a great example. Try it, get a book and put your finger in the middle of the top line, now just slowly move your finger down the page, watching just above it as it goes. With a bit of practice you'll be amazed, you don't actually have to read the lines, the brain just takes in the words, jiggles them around and makes sense of it. And half the time the brain does that whilst racing, just makes sense of it for you half the time. It's nice to give it a helping hand though and concentrate on what's important - ie, the next corner, and not on talking or the smell of bacon or whatever! |
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