OK, it's all about maintaining momentum. You need to think about your exit speeds, and where the car is sliding. Sliding is bad, because all it does is scrub off speed. Also, I think it's best to do this test in Auto, since the car doesn't accelerate smoothly, and you can spend a while bouncing around the rev limiter.
The critical corners are:
The first: start way out to the left, tap the brakes then steer to get the car a little sideways, then power through it with pretty much no steering at all. Don't, whatever you do, hit the bank on the exit.
The midsection (fast right caution into flat left over bridge, into left four then five right very long).
Get the first turn in this section right, and you won't scrub off too much speed. Again, keep it away from the bank. Be pointing in the same direction as you're travelling over the bridge, or you'll lose any benefits from the increased traction here. Into the left-right section, brake late, but not too hard, you can carry a lot of speed through the left hander, as long as you use all the grass. Then tease the car through the very long right hander, and you should maintain good speed through here.
The horseshoe (flat right into hairpin left 10 flat right very long).
The pacenote is wrong here. Lift a little for the first right hander, be very careful not to slide, because this will destory your entry to the hairpin. As soon as you apex the first right, straighten, and brake very hard, then start turning left. The car will come around, but that's fine. Work with the slide, back hard on the power, and use all the road, You should now be able to run around the inside of the very long right hander to the finish line.
Hopefully that helps a little. I peppered the time for ages, getting down to about 2/100ths of a second off the gold time. Then, just as I was about to give up, I broke the gold by 2/10ths!!
Now, can someone help me on TT9 please?
