How not to brake for a corner, newbies pay attention

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Originally Posted by eschaider

I am not sure which was the greater whoops, Jim. Stabbing the brakes or down shifting without matching engine rpm and vehicle speed. Intuitively I want to say the down shift without matching the engine rpm to the vehicle speed but I am not smart enough about those things to know with any degree of certainty.

Great learning experience, thanks for sharing. Quite a ride and great recovery!


Ed

Ed,

When you are on the track you do not necessarily know how fast you are going, the speedo is not hooked up. It's more of a sense of how fast you are going. My guess is that coming in at that speed into that corner might have caught me a little off guard and disrupted my normal routine. Not sure that at that speed I could have rev matched it in 2nd gear even if I did blip it. Second Strike for my setup has 88 mph in second gear at about 6600 rpms and I may have been going faster than that when the clutch was let out. I should have kept it in 3rd until I had slowed more.

Patrick,

Morris will definitely be able to add some wisdom to this one.

Jim