Small improvements to Barcelona lap time



Since studying this video from TraxionGG I’ve made some notes on positioning and gears.

I’ve found I get my best times when I don’t try to set a personal best, but concentrate on positioning and choosing the correct gear. I heard somewhere that smooth is fast and fast is smooth. This seems to be true for me.

Doing this I’ve taken 2 seconds off my lap time — but my laps are still very rough.

I’ve put the rubber brake mod in my T3PA pedals, and I’ve got to get used to that now. I think I’ve got a much better appreciation now for how important pedals are. I’m tempted to upgrade to the T-LCM pedals so I can compare the basic potentiometer pedals to some Load Cell pedals.

Now, I think I need to concentrate on braking effectively — I’ve found some advice here from Driver61.






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