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I love watching your videos @Zakspeed_TV - you're driving is so freakin' smooth...and you hit every since inch of the track that you're supposed to. To an amateur, I don't think Laguna Seca would look very challenging, maybe the corkscrew, but that's only because it looks so wild and crazy! Unfortunately, I struggle with this track quite a bit.
The opening hairpin turn is actually Turn #2 and it's not bad - Turn #1 being the high speed kink just before it. Well, Turn #3 gives me such horrible fits, I could put my fist through my screen if it weren't 8 feet away!! Even Turn #4 can often get me off line. I swear, it seems like if I run 20 laps 10 of them I'll bungle #3 and on five of the laps I don't, I bungle #4 instead.
It was surprising to see you stay in 3rd gear from your approach all the way thru to the exit of Turn #8/8A (corkscrew). I've been finding myself going down to 2nd gear for the engine braking, but putting it right back into 3rd gear just as I've turned in at the top. I wonder if I'm giving the car balance fits going into 2nd gear. Turn #10 produces the most G's of any turn at Laguna Seca and feels fantastic when taken perfectly...I tend to go wide here, often into the sand which doesn't help my lap time much.
EDIT: Hey, what's the name of the second track in your opening video? I can't figure out where that is..