Talk:Lotus Type 125 Championship/@comment-32796836-20171122005340/@comment-28169398-20171122204424

What I will say is this.

I used to just slog around, pedal to the metal, going over the edge, skidding and sliding and thinking I was going fast.

Then one day I watched one of Speed-Junkies videos; the one where he did brake points in the FXX K at Laguna Seca. I saw how early he was braking and I couldn't understand it. 'How can he be so fast and brake so early?' I thought.

Then it occurred to me. He is so fast BECAUSE he brakes early. And his early braking isn't early, it is pretty much the spot where you want to brake to have the maximum control into the corner so you can accelerate out or the corner and that is the secret to going fast. I would carry much more speed into a corner only to have to be braking long after Jan was well on the accelerator. And we are not talking tenths lost. This costs 1, 2 seconds at a chunk, depending on the corner it is.

So know, even in a race, but especially in time trials, I try to self-evaluate my corners. Did I overshoot the apex? Too late braking. Did I have to get back on the accelerator before I reached the Apex? Too early braking. Did I reach the apex just right but my nose wasn't pointed where it needed to be to aggressively accelerate out of the turn? I set up the line wrong and need to adjust where I place the car on track as I am approaching a turn. Then you have to be able to anticipate traffic going into turns and adjust, within a second how you are going to adjust your routine to get through the corner efficiently while also pulling off the pass.

You can watch all the videos you want, but if you are not prepared to put the thinking in to understand what you are doing differently then you are not going to get very far.

You also have to be careful about who you follow. I cannot Ghost Race ZimFrank, I don't know what he does, but his lines and braking are completely different to how I control the cars in game. I find that Tim U. and RaduTan, for me run a line and control the car in a way that feels more natural to me. So while Jan R's videos are great and instructional, he may be doing it in a way that is not natural to your style and you need to find someone closer to how you control the game.