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CQ, your team use accelerometer sensor altogether with the datalogging system? hmm that is why your team very fast in SIC..suspension tuned to the perfection...correct me if i wrong...
Late braking is, even in a 1200kg Saloon car, to my experience, helpful. As in the Class A MME race car, I gained .3 of a second from braking later into T1 alone. This based on comparing my data with my more experience teammate.actually... i'm an avid disbeliever in late braking...
alot of people say that late braking improves lap times... which is true to a very certain extent..
most people would have heard about late braking from F1 or other formula style races, this is because the braking effort to vehicle weight ratio is far greater than that of a saloon car..
WARNING: brain power required!!
think for a moment... the level of grip that your car has at any given time is determined by the contact patch of your tyres... that is.. the entire weight of your car resting on 4 patches the size of your palm...
for a simplified arguments sake.. we'll assume that we're on the main straight at sepang entering turn 1...because the car is on the straight, there are no lateral forces acting on the tyre.. which means that your tyre has 100% of its lateral grip available to you.. if you brake very early.. you might use 20% of the tyres grip to decelerate to corner entry speed... which means that you have 80% of grip available to corner..
now in contrast.. if you go in too hot.. and brake very very late... you might use 80% of that grip to decelerate.. which means you have 20% of 'cornering power' available.. thats fine if your car weighs 600kg and you have 300kg in downforce acting on your car... you can still make the corner...
but in most likely cases.. you would turn the steering and your car goes towards the kitty litter.. you curse and hope that you don;t get stuck...
i find that its very difficult for a driver to NOT brake late.... but instead trail brake into that corner.. the idea is to balance the amount of cornering force that you have available and the amount of time you take to make it down the straight...
Late braking is, even in a 1200kg Saloon car, to my experience, helpful. As in the Class A MME race car, I gained .3 of a second from braking later into T1 alone. This based on comparing my data with my more experience teammate.
However, I do agree, controlling/balancing the car is more difficult should a driver brake too hard, too late. Thus ending up going too hot into the turn
During trail braking, the key would be to brake hard initially to scrub off speed, thus enabling the tires to work better going into the turn. Personally I only trail brake in a FF car, preferring to brake in a straight line when in a MR or a FR car
I got one problem in cornering of turn 5, and 6... how many of u using 3th gear or 4th gear... ??
When i entering turn 5, my speed already reach 4th gear, if i use 4th gear at below vtec point for turn 5,6, my car oversteer...feel like no grip at all...
IF i shift down to 3th gear in high rev in turn 5,6... no oversteer but i feel slow.....:slug:
MIne is b16, type r lsd, 4.4FD, ad07...
Any comment??
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