but wouldnt you have to adjust the amount to look inside the cone by the
speed you are traveling and the amount of turning required? both of these
affect how much drift there will be. so on some turns you look 3 ft and
some 4 ft? that sounds difficult to me.
i dont think my car drifts even an inch. i look at my line around the apex
and drive right on it (hopefully). or maybe im compensating for it
internally? sherry does my car drift at all??? my style is to never let
the car slide much at all (um, kevin's vette experience aside!) so maybe i
am going too slow to drift???
street tires are a different world of course. i remember my first day at
sear's point trying to compensate for 6 feet of tire drift. after that i
kind of forgot about it. weird.
-james c
"True Street" Results Round 1 http://thevenom.net/truestreet/round1.html
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Stevens" <Kevin_Stevens@pursued-with.net>
To: "james creasy" <Black94PGT@pacbell.net>
Cc: "Rich Urschel" <OSP13@attglobal.net>; "Kelly, Katie" <kkelly@spss.com>;
<ba-autox@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, February 01, 2002 1:29 PM
Subject: Re: Not Looking, was Re: Not Thinking
>
>
> On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, james creasy wrote:
>
> > this reminds me that the car tends to go where you are looking.
> >
> > so DONT look at the apex cones, look at the (curved) line next to the
apex
> > cone that you are going to drive on.
>
> I'll disagree with this, at least personally. For me, I can't compensate
> automatically for drift. So on, for example, street tires, I have to look
> WELL inside the cone, and rely on experience that the car will carry
> outside the cones. On a particular course on street tires in the rain, I
> recall deliberately looking almost four FEET inside a particular cone.
> Results were perfect and I did extremely well at that event.
>
> Ideally I could look at where I *want* to be and mentally compensate so
> that I turn in more/earlier, but the reality for me is that I have to do
> it the other way around.
>
> KeS
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