My first track day and it was a really good experience. I think Mallory is a great circuit to learn on because it’s short and simple.
Only had one minor scare when going into Gerards and I had to hit the brakes a lot harder than expected to let a CRX in that was alongside me. The whole car went unweighted and the backend started to twitch, but as soon as I put the power back down it evened itself up.
It seemed a few didn’t listen to the overtaking rules for the circuit. I think the issue on the pit straight was that as you came out of Devil’s Elbow you naturally ran to the righthand side of the track and then needed to drift over to the left hand side so people could over take on the right. If you left drifting over too long or the people wanting to overtake were too eager and had started to overtake pretty much by the start of the straight then it let to some moves going on up the left. Overtaking down the Stebbe Straight was a really nice spot.
Had some four wheel drifting going on through the Esses on a couple of laps as I carried more speed through them which was satisfying. Never really seemed to get Gerard’s perfected (always seemed to scrub off too much speed on entry and be on the inside if the track too early). Also wondered if I should have been more agressive through Devil’s but was a bit put off of ending up in the briefing room.
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