Originally Posted by
jkirkwood
There are probably really no secrets they are hiding. I've been on the other side of the fence from time to time and people swear I'm cheating and hiding something to the point I would take their motors out of their car, and slap them strait into mine. You said they pull away from you on tight sections. This tells me your corner speed maybe a bit lacking and that comes with practice and knowledge of car setup. I'm told some of the newer brushless motors are better designed for blinky racing so you might think about getting one, but with that said corner speed is everything. A 1 mph increase in corner exit speed can give you huge returns at the end of the straight. Taking a line through a corner which allows the earliest possible point of getting back into the throttle is usually best provided it doesn't set you up weird for an obstacle.
I want to thank you all for all your thoughts and ideas on the topic of why those 4 guys are always a bit faster than me. I'm going to take a good hard look at it.
I think I only need to shave about 1/2 a second per lap to get on the podium consistently.
To be fair, it's not that the guys at my track wont talk to me at all about what they're up to....they just wont give up all of their motor or gearing secrets either.
HOWEVER...I just got some intel on something that one of the fast guys has been up to... He is using a Team Powers 17.5 with the 13.0 rotor on his SC10. I don't know if he's doing that with his buggy too though...sigh. That said, he ALSO ran it with 33% boost in modified SC. He took the 3rd spot, too. He was leading for the 1st 2 minutes of the main until he cased the triple, too.
That got me thinking about what else these guys may be up to that I don't know about...