04-13-2012, 01:44 PM
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WFLYIDNNE
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Originally Posted by MightyBobo
You say it as if its the ONLY purpose. Finding the limit and passing it is a scary event - that means you're likely going on an off-track excursion, or in the least, overshooting a proper corner.
You're going to the track to learn a lot things, including:
Proper car control (hand placement, instinctual countersteering, anticipating weight shift under braking/acceleration, etc)
Brake/throttle modulation in concert with steering
Situational awareness (flag stands, cars around you, etc)
Beginner racecraft (apexing, entering/exiting a corners of different types, etc)
...and so on, so forth. Finding "the limit" is something that happens while doing any of the above. All of those take PATIENCE and practice. If you think you are the next Ayrton Senna and try to act like that, it WILL bite you. Ask my last instructor at Summit Point - the last (and only other) 370Z he was with at that track, was a NISMO. The guy totalled it his VERY FIRST SESSION.
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 You're trying to take too much from what I say. Would I go 101% my first event/lap out? No. I'm saying that in time, I'd like to be able to do so. First off I'd just sit there and let the instructors give me every bit of knowledge they have, and do several several several laps at moderate speeds making sure I'm doing what I'm supposed to correctly and consistently. I'm there to learn all of those things yes. But the ultimate goal is to be able to push myself and my car to that limit (safely) and have a blast doing it.
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