How to Drive Slow, Medium & Fast Corners (Actionable Tutorial)
2,086Today we’re going to examine how we should change our technique for different corner types.
Depending on the particular corner of a circuit, your braking, racing line and whole method may change.
As driver’s we’re trying to extract every last tenth of a second from our lap time, so it’s important to understand these differences.
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Of course, no two corners from any race circuits are identical, but we can categorise corners into three main types – based more on what follows them rather than the corner itself.
We can use these three categories – providing the driver is fast and consistent at corner entry – because the straight that follows a turn is more important to lap time than the turn itself.
Therefore, we can separate each corner into being:
- Before a long straight
- Before a short straight
- Directly before another corner (or a sequence of corners)
- With each of these different corner types, we get most benefit if we have a different driving technique.
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