I'd love to see GR.1 at The Glen. Especially if they do the limiting thing where they separate Group C from LMP1 and especially if they also separate out Vision GT so that it's just pure LMP1.
That sounds like it would be impossible to drive
Thanks to some good advice here I was able to be competitive tonight in C. Can finally get through chikane of death consistently and improved my quality with more than a second. From driving a buss at the back of the field to fighting for 8-11 place is good progress on a map I find difficult 😊
If anyone want to add me to their TT list I would appreciate it. BigB_1689
Lovely news mate - added you
Had an early finish yesterday so I did a few Daily Race A's (all I am doing at the moment as a DR-D/SR-S).
But what I was wondering is how people go about prepping for their own new Daily Race week?
Is it wise to do 50-100 (or more) time trial laps to get track/car knowledge up (and times down) and put myself into a position to race against better competition...or do the 20-30 laps and
I feel like I know the answer, but was just wondering what a new race week looks like for drivers at different levels (any Race: A/B/C, any DR: E/D/C/B/A/A+/S).
This a good question and one I've put a lot of thought into the last 4/5 weeks.
The answer is going to differ person to person based on time to race etc.... for example i have 15-20 hours a week that I can race so putting 2-3 hours into a dedicated TT session is only a small part of my time but I know
@NevilleNobody is more limited on time with weekends off so may probably want to get racing quicker.
I'll give you my experience for what it's worth and you can take what you want from it mate.
When I started I was just super eager to race so would jump into races half baked, not fully knowing the braking points and needing the red lines assist on to tell me when to brake etc.... This led to me being really inconsistent, having a ton of bad races and having much "dirtier' races as I was just constantly out of position and couldn't judge corners/braking etc.... which led to getting hit and punted as I was all over the place, braking early or missing braking points.
4 weeks ago I decided to dedicate Mondays to TT and learning a track before racing the rest of the week and my enjoyment, results and clean driving have all improved dramatically.
It's not specifically just developing raw pace that is important, it's knowing the track fully, making sure you know every line, braking point, turning point and acceleration point to a point where in a race you're jostling for position you're not guessing where to brake etc... as a newbie you're going to be up against people that have raced that track 10/15 times so you need to build some track knowledge.
For you every week is most likely going to be a brand new track so it's going to take longer to learn but at a minimum I think you want to be able to string together 10 quali laps of consistent pace without crashing before going into a race. You will get repeat races where it's quicker to learn. I'm 5 months in now and I'd say it's 50/50 on new or repeated track for me. For example Kyoto 2 weeks ago took me 70 laps to find pace and learn the track. Dragon Trail this week is a repeat for me and took 50. (Laguna Seca took me 500 laps and I still didn't find any consistency 🤦♂️ or pace)
In terms of what a week looks like for me.
Monday - TT and learn a track 2-3 hours - anything upto 100 laps - usually 50/60 alongside studying replays of fastest times.
Tues - race
Weds - race
Thurs - 45 min - 1 hour TT again to see if I've found pace and race
Fri - Sun - race if i can
Hope that helps and apologise for the rambling answer
