Schattenbaum NJMP April 9-10

[Darren]

Mark Fox wrote:

Darren,

Yes I am refering to to the exit past the curbing on the right following T-5. Staying out later will probably give you better approach into T-6. Tremper and the wing men were doing this.

Also Hoyt was driving well into the light bulb before initiating turn in. I never did get the braking right upon entry. I had one run in the 17's handful in the 18's. Cleaning up the entry into the light bulb and the extra speed down the front straight is probalbly worth 2 sec.

I don't know -- that's Tremper a couple of cars in front of me and I don't see him gaining ground on me there. They do beat me through 2-4 though, any right-left transition I get killed with the PSS9 vs real suspensions.

The lightbulb isn't that difficult -- there are really 3 components -- entry point, entry speed, and the point where you go full throttle. The difference between a bad and good line is probably 10 car lengths by T1, less than a second I think. Basically it's 10 extra mph faster everywhere from the entry-point of the lightbulb all the way to the end of the front straight. Suprisingly I was going a little faster there (142 mph) than I was on the front straight at Thunderbolt.

I hit the 'bulb perfectly one time and pushed all the way out and about 2" over the track-out curbing -- Pechstein was behind me -- it was a little too aggressive for DE though I had to back it down.

I really want to do a track walk there -- I want to see how soft or bumpy the dirt is at the track-out point from the 'bulb. It's also really suprising that T6 (left hander) you can see a huge hill from the paddock that you just plain can't see driving the track.