{"id":31180,"date":"2020-05-04T03:05:51","date_gmt":"2020-05-04T10:05:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=31180"},"modified":"2020-04-12T16:34:23","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T23:34:23","slug":"q-does-getting-back-to-throttle-early-always-mean-a-better-exit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-does-getting-back-to-throttle-early-always-mean-a-better-exit\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Does getting back to throttle early always mean a better exit?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: <em>\u201cDoes an earlier throttle application always mean a better exit off of a corner? It seems that sometimes when I start accelerating early, I don\u2019t end up with as high a top speed on the straight as other times. What\u2019s going on?\u201d<\/em><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>: If you enter a corner at 5 MPH, just think how early you could begin applying the throttle! You\u2019d be able to immediately go to full throttle because you\u2019re traveling so slowly. So, even though you got back to throttle early, you won\u2019t make up for the slow cornering speed. That\u2019s why, sometimes, getting to throttle early doesn\u2019t make you faster down the following straightaway, and faster overall.<\/p>\n<p>Take this example to the opposite end of the spectrum. If you enter a corner too fast, you\u2019re going to be late to throttle, and that will hurt your straightaway speed, too. This is why the advice, \u201cIn slow \u2013 out fast\u201d is given so often.<\/p>\n<p>Getting the balance between corner minimum speed, and when you begin to accelerate, is part of the magic compromise that you need to do in every single corner.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s something else to consider in all of this, too. If you begin to squeeze on the throttle early, but then have to ease up a bit before you get to full throttle, that will often hurt your straightaway speed more than if you hesitated slightly before even beginning to squeeze the throttle. In other words, it\u2019s not when you begin to apply the throttle that counts; it\u2019s when you get to full throttle that makes the difference. There are exceptions to this guideline, but often we\u2019re in such a hurry to apply the throttle that we actually hurt our acceleration and exit speed. If you find yourself having to ease up on the throttle as you accelerate out of a corner, you have likely begun to apply the throttle too soon, and a bit of patience might make you faster.<\/p>\n<p>I created a video tip \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/3oiMjAx0--Q\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>Off-Throttle \u2013 Coasting to Be a Faster Driver<\/em><\/a> \u2013 that will add to my thoughts here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: \u201cDoes an earlier throttle application always mean a better exit off of a corner? It seems that sometimes when I start accelerating early, I don\u2019t end up with as high a top speed on the straight as other times. What\u2019s going on?\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31392,"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-31180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ask-ross"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31180","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=31180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31181,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31180\/revisions\/31181"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31392"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}