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Old 01-26-2009, 11:10 AM
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Originally Posted by NCWC
But this is nothing at all like drag racing.
well, yes it is, sorta. you want to put down max power while keeping traction. the idea is to move forward as fast as possible right? take out all the driver elements (cornering angles, early, mid, late apex, ect.) and get down to the basics. what moves the car forward faster? rolling the throttle, or mashing it? run two equal buggies side by side from a stand still and get a real world comparison. you made a comment about rolling on the throttle when running a high traction track, this comparison will show you that pinning it will take full advantage of the available traction while rolling will only use some of the available traction. now, take pinning it down a straight on a high traction surface and apply it to blipping the throttle when in tight technical track features with high traction - taking full advantage of available traction will mean giving it 100% throttle for short amounts of time (as long as the corner length will allow)

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