When did you discover slow in fast out

[obi_waynne]

What was the first time you discovered it was better to go slow into a corner and fast out, rather than trying to maintain a higher average speed through the bend?

For me it was quite early on in go carting. None of my friends seemed to pick up on it for a while so I dominated the lap times. I just slowed right up on a corner so I could blast out onto the straight, they all kept going full pelt into the corner and losing speed or skidding on the apex and took a while to catch up with me.

Since then I've been interested in finding the perfect racing lines, cornering balance, straight line cornering and left foot braking.

 

[Lunchmoney]

I would like to say carting as well, but it was probably in my days of illegal street racing*. No one ever caught me



*yes, yes, I know bad boy, blah blah, been over this many times. I was young and dumb as were my friends.

 

[thexav]

This is going to sound sad but it was on Gran Turismo on the Playstation!

 

[obi_waynne]

This is going to sound sad but it was on Gran Turismo on the Playstation!

That does sound sad, but certainly explains your cornering techniques!