Doing my first DE
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I would suggest starting off slow. Go slow the whole first session
Learn the course first!!! Learn the braking points, the apexes for each corner, the correct line. As you get comfortable with the track itself, you will start going faster without noticing.
First learn the track, then your car. Pushing your car will be much easier if you know the track. Deflate your tires a little bit, try learning heel and toe for smooth gear changes.
Learn the course first!!! Learn the braking points, the apexes for each corner, the correct line. As you get comfortable with the track itself, you will start going faster without noticing.
First learn the track, then your car. Pushing your car will be much easier if you know the track. Deflate your tires a little bit, try learning heel and toe for smooth gear changes.
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Be careful you'll get hooked fast. And don't worry about a nick or scratch....it will happen no doubt. It's just a car and it wants to be driven. Most people on this forum will never do what you are about to do. Enjoy it.
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Hey all:
Sorry I forgot to post my postDE report. It's been a couple of weeks since I did the DE, but here is the report that I had typed up in the evening after I did the DE earlier that day.
Whew!!!
Now THAT was something! Hours later, my head is still spinning. I've never done anything like this in a car before! And I found that a Porsche is a pretty formidable machine.
I listened to my instructor, and tried to do what he said...sometimes I did, and sometimes I didn't.
Pushing out of one's comfort zone in baby steps is pretty accurate. I was going lots faster at the end of the day than at the beginning--which I found driving the correct line going slow (morning) is a little different than doing it much faster (afternoon--the increased speed meant different braking, lot less time to set up the turn, lot more unforgiving of making the turn with less than the desired line). Hard for me to imagine, at this time, doing that in traffic!
Funny--for me, flooring it and hard braking and hard turning on the track totally satisfied my "need for speed" for this day. I had no desire to take any of this aggression out on the public roads on the 1 hour drive home. I was beat. Tracking may be the cure for aggressive street driving.
Looking forward to the next one!
Thanks for all the advice.
Jimmy
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Sorry I forgot to post my postDE report. It's been a couple of weeks since I did the DE, but here is the report that I had typed up in the evening after I did the DE earlier that day.
Whew!!!
Now THAT was something! Hours later, my head is still spinning. I've never done anything like this in a car before! And I found that a Porsche is a pretty formidable machine.
I listened to my instructor, and tried to do what he said...sometimes I did, and sometimes I didn't.
Pushing out of one's comfort zone in baby steps is pretty accurate. I was going lots faster at the end of the day than at the beginning--which I found driving the correct line going slow (morning) is a little different than doing it much faster (afternoon--the increased speed meant different braking, lot less time to set up the turn, lot more unforgiving of making the turn with less than the desired line). Hard for me to imagine, at this time, doing that in traffic!
Funny--for me, flooring it and hard braking and hard turning on the track totally satisfied my "need for speed" for this day. I had no desire to take any of this aggression out on the public roads on the 1 hour drive home. I was beat. Tracking may be the cure for aggressive street driving.
Looking forward to the next one!
Thanks for all the advice.
Jimmy
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It certainly takes the edge off. After going to the track, I drive relaxed for like a week 
Then the itch comes back...
You get hooked up; but it certainly beats racing on the street. I see so many idiots driving aggressively on the street; it's not that they drive bad or anything, it's the fact that the other drivers are not aware of the situation and they cut into lanes without signaling etc. and causes accidents...
Then the itch comes back...You get hooked up; but it certainly beats racing on the street. I see so many idiots driving aggressively on the street; it's not that they drive bad or anything, it's the fact that the other drivers are not aware of the situation and they cut into lanes without signaling etc. and causes accidents...