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The trailbraking issue will get resolved easily enough once the season starts. Then I can bum rides with others and wheedle more experienced guys into a couple laps behind my wheel.
My focus on trailbraking right now is Roebling’s turn 5. It’s a fairly slow turn. If I was better, I’d do it in 3rd gear. For those that separate the turn into 5a and 5b, I’m trying to rotate a little at 5b turn-in.
Scott Gress wrote:
[quote]The trailbraking issue will get resolved easily enough once the season starts. Then I can bum rides with others and wheedle more experienced guys into a couple laps behind my wheel.
My focus on trailbraking right now is Roebling’s turn 5. It’s a fairly slow turn. If I was better, I’d do it in 3rd gear. For those that separate the turn into 5a and 5b, I’m trying to rotate a little at 5b turn-in.[/quote]
It sounds to me like your having trouble getting the car to rotate more than anything. Run the rear sway full tight. You can run a really aggressive rear pad but be careful because it can get pretty hairy under heavy braking. I would describe trail-braking as michael said as extending my braking zone and braking while i’m beginning to turn in. The added weight on the front tires gives them more traction than the rear and tends to make the rear step out and help the car rotate. Here’s a pretty bad example of braking into my turn in.
Michael Skeen wrote:
A 1/16 toe out in the front might help. You could toe the rear out a 1/16 like the drifters do and that would definitely make it rotate 