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Originally Posted by
Granpa
Out of curiosity, what did you do before when you got to a corner????? I'd almost always backed off the throttle.
I always have done. I'm a touring car driver so its natural to back off and look for the tight line. What is hard for me with Minis and also GT12 is to look for the smooth entry to keep corner speed up as they don't have the same punch out of corners as touring cars. When the Mini is handling well, I like how you can just power through a long sweeper without fear of it flying off. Mine had too much understeer to do that yesterday.
I too came to Minis from TC. These are just impressions of mine and are not in any way meant to impugn the abilities or the merits of either discipline. For me, a TC is much easier to drive and unless involved in an actual race almost boring. A TC handles much better than a Mini and is much easier to tune cause it responds reliably to adjustments. In other words if something should give you a certain result, it usually does. A mini however is not as predictable. This is why so many TC drivers have some difficulty in setting up a Mini. Standard advice to a TC driver new to Minis is "forget everything you know about chassis set up and start over". Not entirely true, but a lot of things don't work the same way as in a TC. In both you will find a select few are just faster and the gap seems similar.
What's different is that a fast well set up Mini is edgy and hard as hell to drive, whereas a well set up TC is highly responsive, but is glued to the track. In either case the best drivers are the only ones to get the most out of the cars. For me I like the "pucker" factor involved in hot lapping a Mini, that for me is missing in a TC. This is not the reason I left TCs, I just liked the more relaxed atmosphere of Minis.