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Cool vid. Nice production/editing.

There were a couple sweepers you could have taken faster. Maybe gained .5-1 sec on the last run.

You still show some new driver tendancies but not many. You should try some pro solos and regional events next year. You'll have a blast and learn a bunch.

You've definitely got that R56 dialed in well and you have the skill to whip it around a course.

 

Let me rewatch the vid tonight. I can tell you the time stamps where I see the improvement points.

Not much to improve on, mind you. You seemed pretty enthused so I figure you are gonna go at AutoX pretty hard and would appreciate any help.

 

So at the 1:32-1:40 mark you come off a slalom into a sweeping right turn:

You take the first cone tight then give a bunch of room to the second then come in tight for the third marker for the end of the sweeper. Mid way through the turn (1:34) you straighten out the wheel to make the apex later so you have a better shot at hitting the gate at the end (appx 1:40-1:41).

You scrubbed speed there in a place where there should have been set with the wheel. The sawing motion mid turn tells me your turn in was too early for the beginning of the sweeper and required a bit more correction to make the first gate at the end of the sweeper. More lost speed.

The solution is twofold: 1) Look further ahead. Your head was turned but I'm not convinced your eyes were at the entrance to the gate at the end (yes, look that far ahead). 2) After your walkthroughs get better you may be able to spot these sorts of things early on. However, if you are like me it will take a run or two to see that giving more room to the first cone of the sweeper a tad less to the second and coming tight on the third will keep your turn radius set require no further movement of the steering wheel and give you the most speed through the sweeper and set you up cleanly for the gate.

At 2:00 you enter another right hand sweeper after leaving a short solom. You lope through the sweeper and then take the slalom to the end super wide where you were very aggresive in the salom seconds before. Frankly, you should have gone faster through the sweeper and been tighter on the slalom. My guess is that coned away run made you a bit too wary of that section as the end.

That's what's obvious from the camera angle to me. I hope that helps.

Like I said before, you're doing well. You're getting to the point where it's no one big thing keeping you from owning in the PAX standings. It's a collection of more subtle things where you are giving up time/speed. Keep up the good work. Hope to see more next season.