Originally Posted by cossymad
I'll have to get some driving tips from you!!!
I am not the best person to takie tips from, althought we'll see.
Remember that was the first time I had driven in 10 months, and before that, I was exactly Mr.Perfect. I just try to remember the whole track, or section by secton, and string each bit together.
Yeah I realized sometime yestrday you lost your licence sometime ago so you don't get much practise :-(
I guess with a full load, I will get more understeer as the car wants to go straight at the bends, especially in the damp track.
It's funny - in normal situations the car will understeer more, but with rapid changes of direction it make it much more unstable. I once spun at high speed with just cameraman in the back which was pretty scary. I was just going throught pretty tight (low 3rd or high 2nd gear) S-turn. I did that turn maybe hundret times that day but not with somebody in the back, and then I lost it....
With no passengers the car gets a little twitchy on long bends and tail happy on the tight stuff, which I am not used to. It drifts fairly well on certain bends which is quite good for powering out of the majority of bends at Nurburg.
The Escos do that :-D The twichy part is you know compromise - either the car understeers or becomes twichy, hard to setup car so it's stable but won't understeer :-( Epecially old car like Escos. But maybe Brom would know how to do that?
Make sure you go in Easter, or whenever we are going next, and you'll see it is more about knowledge than speed or handling
(Disregard that last sentance...I'm starting to sound like Dr. Rainbird CAmP)
I will try very hard to get there. Will try to take co-driver or my driving instructor from rally school
So I have unfair advantage
Anyways I am pretty sure this is mosty about knowlege of the track. And some corners are very hard to describe. My friends from rally-school were there just week after you and they did the best lap I think 9:08 i standard STI Peter Solberg Edition (300bhp, active diff). So it's still over a second per kilometer slower then factory test drivers do in those. I hope to learn the track a bit, but can't afford to go full throttle there I think... but we'll see.
Anyway - as I said I am impressed (I don't know if I expressed myself right) - you did very quick laptimes and it looks slow - that is good, no fighting with the car.