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Originally Posted by sperry
Thanks for the description Dean. I realize there is banking to the turn, but at the turn in point, everything feel like it's sloping away and to the right, which makes the transistion from the straight off of 8a to turning in on 9 feel very harry.
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I think the key is to not go all the way out, and make the turn in very slow hitting the maximum lock required at the maximum traction point as you hit the banking.
I've probably been through that corner over 400 times now, and it still bothers me sometimes even though I know the car will stick. It is probably the most disturbing corner I've been through at any of the tracks I've been to.
I hate to sound like a broken record, but the key to it is getting your eyes down the straight towards turn 10 as early as possible. Only then does your brain accept the actual geometry of the corner. Whenever I find myself uncomfortable in that corner, I know it is because I'm not looking through it enough.
That whole sequence, 7-11 has a tendency to suck your eyes down. When working with students, I tell them to start looking for things well before they can see them. The 8A oak tree while still in 7, and The outside turn 9 worker station and Apex of 9 while still in 8 & 8A.
The sequnce goes something like: Parentesis means the car is at the entry of that turn) "(7)braking zone, don't cheat the turn in, oak tree (
turn 9, (8A)worker, Apex, through the corner, (9), down the straight, remember to unwind/track out, braking zone, garages, (10), braking zone, bleachers, (11) remember to track out, Mazda bridge...
I can't wait to get back there in February...