New Suzuka session yesterday.
In the first corner I gained 3 tenths by braking better. The beginning of the braking now is half the distance from the beginning of the curb than before. The exit has also improved, about 10 kmh more and especially well at the apex.
At the first intermediate I improved by 3 tenths, although I left a couple on the road.
I found a lot of benefit in putting second before the last left turn of the snake (thanks
@Gomario JSP, I saw it in your replay), both because it gains a little rotation and because it makes it easier for me to go full left on the next uphill
At Degner1 I positioned myself better. Here I get to within 7 tenths of my previous PB.
The spoon I did as poorly as last time, and the whole last part I can do much better.
All in all I improved by 5 tenths.
Too bad about the second part of the track, had I done it right I would have finished under 1.51
Here are my splits (the percentages are against Tidgney, not agaist WBest)
Yesterday I made a comical post about ideal times.
Now, seriously, often these ideal values mislead because they do not represent the theoretical limit, when rather a mathematical contrivance that is likely to come out of chance.
Already we sometimes talk about the golden lap, that near-perfect lap that we can never repeat again, if instead we give credit to ideal spits we risk ending up in the frankenstein territory of golden sectors.
Unfortunately, I have an hard time processing in real time when I see a good split while driving and associating it with something specific I've done that may justify it, unless I'm trying something on porpuse. I have a much better skill figuring out what went wrong with a not-so-good split. And this inability is all the greater the more I am driving fast cars.
All this is to say that I think a slower but repeatable time is worth more than a great time that is the result of chance or hardly repeatable.