Board Thread:Challenge Threads/@comment-27048832-20161126195519/@comment-29898480-20161209025440

Thanks Gizm0h, Happy to share my Silverstone experience. Here is where I made the most progress in descending order of importance for me. Track map for reference: Silverstone map

Maggots/Becketts. Assume a nice fast run through Copse. I’m trying to straighten out Maggots as much as possible, and start braking as soon as I hit the curbing at 11 on the map. I’ve got two wheels off on the right. Braking there seems early, but I found a lot of time with that early braking and then getting back onto throttle early through Becketts (12). It’s so tempting to go deeper before braking, but you lose far more than you gain in reduced exit speed onto Hanger straight. I probably gained half a second there or more. If it’s not hairy through there, you’re not going fast enough!

Brooklands./Luffield. When I stopped trying to drive around the inside curbing of 7, and instead was more aggressive with throttle on the short straight between Brooklands and Luffield and kinda squared off 7/Luffield, I picked maybe 3 or 4 tenths. Again, don’t brake too deep into Brooklands, you want to be powering on to that short straight through the wide red inside curbing, left wheels on grass.

Vale. Braking early enough so that you can power over the apex curbing and stay on throttle all the way through 17 & 18. This seems like a place where you really benefit from higher grip at faster speeds. Not sure how much was gained here, it’s so late in the lap.

All that said, when I follow a 1:16.xxx ghost, they just seem to be a little faster everywhere.