{"id":22154,"date":"2019-06-24T04:05:05","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T11:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=22154"},"modified":"2019-06-23T15:51:58","modified_gmt":"2019-06-23T22:51:58","slug":"q-how-much-does-your-advice-about-cornering-technique-apply-to-oval-racing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-how-much-does-your-advice-about-cornering-technique-apply-to-oval-racing\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: How much does your advice about cornering technique apply to oval racing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: <em>\u201cI\u2019ve been reading your book and I was wondering how much certain techniques, such as the ideal line through a corner and reducing steering angle with rotation and others, translate to NASCAR-type cars on ovals. I know that isn\u2019t the kind of racing you did; however I do know you coached Colin Braun who did race in NASCAR for a bit so I was wondering if you could give me any guidance!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>: The simple answer is it totally applies &#8211; all of it. Now, the ideal line in every corner is different, so I can\u2019t say the line through turn 1 at Road America is the same as turn 1 on the Charlotte oval. But the concepts are equally important and valid. In almost all cases, reducing steering angle is a good thing. Reducing distance driven is also a factor to consider. Because the corners tend to be longer and faster on ovals, there is often less need to rotate the car, but it\u2019s still used at times \u2013 especially on short ovals. And the idea of \u201cdiamonding\u201d a corner really applies to ovals (and some long carousel corners on road courses).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: \u201cI\u2019ve been reading your book and I was wondering how much certain techniques, such as the ideal line through a corner and reducing steering angle with rotation and others, translate to NASCAR-type cars on ovals. I know that isn\u2019t the kind of racing you did; however I do know you coached Colin Braun who did race in NASCAR for a bit so I was wondering if you could give me any guidance!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-ross"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22155,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22154\/revisions\/22155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}