I'll share this graph i made for a noob explaining about different braking techniques. Mostly about too hard brakes vs light braking.
The red line is hard brakes overshooting the corner a bit (to make error more clear..), blue line is light braking andgreen light blue line is target speed. EDIT: updated the pic, yellow line now shows the alien curve..
It took me ages to realize the difference and what it means. The aliens can produce that red line but they know when to let go so they get the blue line end = yellow line. That means shortest brake distances combined with perfect apex and exit.. Easy... Not...Takes years unless it's inborn talent.. What i was explaining about is that the time difference between the two styles is minute. In our race class it's less than a tenth per corner.. The blue line is easy to to produce, all it takes is patience (heh, right.. easy..). But we all want to get that line closer to red...EDIT: Yellow...
Your thoughts on this? Would be nice to collect some real life data... It's possible, some driver just need to enable MoTec logging in their .PLR files.
EDIT: What i've gathered from our fastest drivers is that their brake curves is mostly blue with a steeper beginning and goes to yellow in the hairpins. amirite? And how much modulation there is or is it reserved for those "i'm not quite sure/TOO FAST!!!" moments.. I'm here to learn first, then practice and race that knowledge to a skill.
The red line is hard brakes overshooting the corner a bit (to make error more clear..), blue line is light braking and
It took me ages to realize the difference and what it means. The aliens can produce that red line but they know when to let go so they get the blue line end = yellow line. That means shortest brake distances combined with perfect apex and exit.. Easy... Not...Takes years unless it's inborn talent.. What i was explaining about is that the time difference between the two styles is minute. In our race class it's less than a tenth per corner.. The blue line is easy to to produce, all it takes is patience (heh, right.. easy..). But we all want to get that line closer to red...EDIT: Yellow...
Your thoughts on this? Would be nice to collect some real life data... It's possible, some driver just need to enable MoTec logging in their .PLR files.
EDIT: What i've gathered from our fastest drivers is that their brake curves is mostly blue with a steeper beginning and goes to yellow in the hairpins. amirite? And how much modulation there is or is it reserved for those "i'm not quite sure/TOO FAST!!!" moments.. I'm here to learn first, then practice and race that knowledge to a skill.