{"id":697,"date":"2019-03-22T18:38:39","date_gmt":"2019-03-22T18:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonathangoring.com\/?p=697"},"modified":"2019-04-20T01:41:06","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T01:41:06","slug":"establishing-corner-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.jonathangoring.com\/establishing-corner-strategy\/","title":{"rendered":"Establishing Strategy For Corners"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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In this article I will be discussing corner strategy.\u00a0<\/i>In racing it isn\u2019t just about how fast you go around the turn (okay well actually it is) but how we set the car up properly before the corner in order to maximize our overall speed on the race track. It isn\u2019t about blindly throwing the car into the turn and holding on for dear life, each corner has a specific strategy. Maybe there’s a corner where you want to go a little slow on the entry, so you can be on the throttle with a nice balanced car and get a good exit. Maybe the opposite! In this article I will show you how to identify the most common corner types, define what type of strategy each would be and teach you the beginnings of how to implement that strategy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Establishing Corner Strategy<\/h2>\n

There are certain parts of a corner we can drive differently to prioritize another section of that same corner. Even if you don\u2019t know what I mean yet, you\u2019ve probably done this before unconsciously. But probably inadvertently! You ever come in to a corner way too hot and barely manage to stick on the road at the exit?<\/p>\n

Sound familiar?<\/h3>\n

Something tells me that during this “oh sh*t” moment you weren\u2019t on initial throttle at the apex of the turn. It\u2019s safe to say that your speed OUT of the corner was not very impressive and you didn\u2019t carry much momentum onto the straight after the turn. You carried an abnormal amount of speed IN to the corner, so your speed OUT of the corner will be sacrificed as a result. You gained an advantage at the exit of the corner and traded it for a disadvantage at the entry.<\/p>\n

This is What Corner Compromising <\/em>is.<\/h2>\n

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(Corner Compromising- Sacrificing speed in one part of the corner for speed in another part)<\/em><\/p>\n

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In this case I just mentioned, inadvertently or not we prioritized our speed into the corner and we had to lose it at the exit is a consequence. Take a look at the red line in Figure 2.1.<\/p>\n

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We could do the exact opposite. We could slow the car down more than we need to, turn it a little later and a little more aggressively than normal so that the car is really \u201csquared off\u201d through the exit of the turn. Take a look at the blue line in Figure 2.1<\/p>\n

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Figure 2.1<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n

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Think about this.<\/h3>\n

In order to go as fast as possible, I need to go as straight as possible. We all agree that a car has a potential for higher speed on the highway than in a tight parking lot. This is due to steering wheel position. The more we steer the more we must slow down.<\/p>\n

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In order to set a quick lap time, we want to spend as much time as possible going as straight as possible.<\/p>\n

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Where Do I Want To Go Slow?<\/h2>\n

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This question literally holds all the secrets to racing we know. The best race car drivers in the world know where to go slow. But wait a minute, we don\u2019t want to go slow anywhere! True, but, there isn\u2019t a single place on the race track where you can go \u201cfast\u201d without it meaning you had to go \u201cslow\u201d somewhere else. By selecting very specific, short sections of the track to go slow on we will end up faster on others with an overall net gain and a very quick lap time.<\/p>\n

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Where do I want to steer the least?<\/h2>\n

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This question is even better because it\u2019s more specific. I mentioned above that any amount we steer slows us down, so we can think of \u201cmore steering\u201d and \u201cgoing slow\u201d as synonyms. Moving forward, instead of thinking about where to go slow and where to go fast, let\u2019s think about where to steer more and where to steer less.<\/p>\n

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Now, as I mentioned earlier, in order to earn the benefit of turning less in a specific spot in a corner we must turn more somewhere else to make up the difference. We can choose where we steer the most and where we steer the least.<\/p>\n

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One of the great speed secrets in racing is knowing where you want to turn MORE in order to favor turning LESS somewhere else. In order to even begin to figure out when and how to do that, we must look into different \u201ccorner types\u201d and understand the most common \u201ccorner strategies\u201d for each type of corner.<\/p>\n

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Defining Corner Types And Their Most Common Goal<\/h2>\n

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Constant Radius Turns<\/em><\/h2>\n

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A turn that neither gets tighter nor opens up as you progress through. A corner that is the same \u201ctightness\u201d (radius) all the way through.<\/p>\n

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