Dan is in, everybody
duck! Flying things above your heads... Probably one of his Stingrays.
And yeah, that hairpin is tricky. I can pull away from my ghost there when I'm lucky, simply because my ghost does a good/average job there - If I pull it right, I can get 1'06.5 out of an otherwise 1'07 T2... But still, I swore to post only clean splits.
And Cyril: After a second week where he's way ahead of other Div3ers, are you still sure you placed MINICOOPER in the right division? Could be that he simply had a bad qualifier.
EDIT: I butchered my old lap and was a whole second faster - and now, I've also improved T2. Which means, I've still got 1.5s left (for me, at least) in the T2-finish, and I can see where I lost a bit on the first part of the hairpin (turn-in was too soon, had to lift the brakes). My T1 is pretty crap-ish, since the 1st right-left combo, as well as the right that comes afterwards were much slower than my ghost - a couple of carlenghts, at times. However, a perfectly-executed stunt saved my T1. I managed to get some sort of a powerslide into the turn before T1, with one wheel on the other side of the rumble-strip, and pass my ghost with a high exit-speed into T1.
Stingray, TCS:
0'31.445 (Obsolete)
1'06.571 (Obsolete)
EDIT 2: And another fastest lap - this time, by 1.2 seconds faster than the one above. Talking to Dan/Holl01 really makes you faster
0'30.933
1'06.220 (What's with the round numbers today? I had an 1'06.700 before)
Stingray, this time, without TCS. I managed to hit every single curb and bump-stone on the T1 section, and did it all as smooth as a Div3-DS2 driver can get. 2nd gear through most of it. Managed to replicate the stunt from the previous splits, and do it on the other T1 corners as well.
Some of Dan's tips, with my interpretation (If one speed it there, it's mine. If two, then the second is Dan's speed. Both using a DS2):
Always look at the speedo.
Which means, to take 1st corner at 60KM/h (65Km/h), in order to get a good line into second (compromise exit-speed on 1st to get a better line trough 2nd). 3rd corner at 85KM/h while crossing over the curb. 4th (the one before T1) can be taken at a slight oversteer-angle with the front-left wheel over the cement, for optimum exit-speed. From there it's guesswork for me, still haven't figured out exact techniques for the following corners. I take the one after T2 over the cement, too, to "enlarge" the corner-radius - attention has to be paid to wheelspin, since both rear wheels come off the bump, and make some spin for a second, if not careful.
Dan power-slidingly gripped the lap.
Is this thread dead, or am I just weird for returning every 3 hours with new splits?
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