Originally Posted by
MotoGod
Ideally you want to be on power when the car leaves the ground. Now this might be wide open for huge jumps...or maybe you are only at 5-10% throttle, but either way...you want to be ON power otherwise you will find your nose will be too low. You also want to get off the throttle as soon as you are in the air, or you will find your nose up high. Just hop back on the power slightly before you hit the ground and it should smooth things out pretty well if you hit the downside...or close to it.
So applying the brakes on the jump approach is fine, just do it enough before the car leaves the ground that you can be back on power just before it takes off.
Definitely. Don't brake when leaving the jump. That will cause your car to nose-dive toward the landing. Either a bit of throttle or coasting as you leave the jump.
Since you need to correct by braking mid-air, you're likely leaving the crest of the jump on pretty good throttle. Letting off the throttle just before you leave the jump may be enough to need less correction and downside the landing.
As for what's faster, at the Associated event at OCRC, the ones that were singling the big jump were faster than the ones that doubled it, even though the ones that doubled it got power back to the ground sooner.