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[bobt993]

Terry,  I think if someone demonstrated it to you in your car you would pick it up right away.  Very different sensation at corner entry.  Feels very much like a soft brake pedal  "oh sh#t" moment, then the car just grips and goes.  After say 2- 20min sessions of scaring yourself, you start to reprogram your butt to say it's okay.  The data is what is impressive.  I found successively after  just one session of building confidence that every successive lap yielded higher corner entry, mid-corner speeds.  I watched my times drop consistently every lap at Tbolt.  When I started getting 1:30xxx, I knew there was yet another second or two for entry to be made up.  My next work in progress will be same mid-corner/exit, but less braking on entry with softer trailing.  My method is going to be using less aggressive pads to start allowing less initial bit and easier brake release.   I really wasted a lot of time focusing on exit speed years ago when the entry was just as critical and harder to re-learn.   Now that I understand the process, I know every turn on at least 4 tracks we frequent where I can make up serious time with less wear on my tires and brakes. 

I remember reading an article on lap comparisons between  Schumacher and other F1 drivers of the day.  Basically the data showed MS was braking earlier than all the other drivers, but released much earlier.  Steering angle was busy with small changes, but gas was neutral until pretty far past the apex and then WOT.  So he spent little time trying to do too much, but corrected for grip with the steering inputs. 
Cumulative, he was a second a lap faster than his nearest competition at that track.