Teuful makes a good point. When you go to practice it should be to practice good laps if nothing else. Pretty much all the practice laps I do are timed, with the counter telling me the laptime each lap. It's amazing the difference between what is fast, and what feels fast! If you have an iPhone there's a $.99 app you can get that times your laps, but it only works when on the track by yourself. I love the thing to death, but I have my own track to run on every day. It might not do you any good if you never get a chance to run alone on the track. Another bonus of hearing your times each lap is if you make changes, you get instant feedback whether it's working or not. Don't forget to walk the track either. You can see a lot of things up close that you'll never see from the stand. If you're car won't take a jump right no matter what you do, it might have a hole in front of it, angled wrong, etc.

Teuful, you sound a lot like me.. I am kind of lazy about doing things to my radio or esc also. So many ways to tune yourself in a circle And to your ride height/tire change.. I was a nitro guy who showed up to an electric series race and was having the race day of my life, qual'd well into the A and the truck was dialed. Against my normal judgement, I made a change.. I went to the rear tire everybody else was doing right before the main and never checked the ride height. Truck nose dived nearly every jump on the track wanting to do somersaults on landing. Man I was disappointed! A mistake to change tires, and even less intelligent not to compensate for the height difference. A good tip.