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Old 10-27-2015 | 05:17 PM
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Sounds like fun, Ivan!

As for braking, I do that often in my tiny track but not drag braking by ESC, I manually brake. I have to, there's no way in hell my car has enough room to rotate at the speed in such tight hairpin, especially my 4WD m-chassis running 17.5T. Thing is a rocket.

The trick for me is to gently drag the brake manually a split second after letting off the throttle, and continue applying a touch more brake force as I set up the car entering the turn. Tight clean line hitting the apex, appears to go slower than a non-braking turn, but in reality the car is going faster from the shorter traveled distance and the earlier application of throttle coming out of the turn. It took me A LOT of practice to get it right in my early years, but I'm sure you'll get it down in no time.

Hope you get the podium with your project M03M
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