{"id":32205,"date":"2020-08-24T03:00:14","date_gmt":"2020-08-24T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=32205"},"modified":"2020-07-23T20:03:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-24T03:03:27","slug":"q-when-should-i-use-a-double-apex-in-corners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-when-should-i-use-a-double-apex-in-corners\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: When should I use a double apex in corners?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q: <\/strong><em>\u201cIs it better to treat the double apex corner as a single apex corner or is there room for a little more brake release \u2014 or quick blip of the throttle \u2014 to gain a bit more \u201cmid-corner\u201d speed through the short stretch of track?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>: I\u2019m going to use one of my favorite answers: \u201cIt depends.\u201d It mostly depends on the length of the corner you\u2019re talking about. But in many corners that can be driven with a double apex, I like to think of them this way: <em>Drive it in hard and deep, collect it in the middle, and drive it out hard<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>If you think about a corner that is about or near 180-degrees (Turn 2 at Laguna or Thunderhill, the Carousel at Road America or Keyhole at Mid-Ohio), there\u2019s enough time in these corners to drive in fast, get the car sorted out in the middle of the corner, and then exit fast. If you drive them with the classic \u201cin slow \u2013 out fast\u201d approach, you\u2019ll be slow because you spend too much time being slow! The corners are long enough to drive in fast and come out even faster.<\/p>\n<p>To use this approach, you definitely use more of a double apex. If you use a single apex, you\u2019re probably entering slower than necessary. This approach that I\u2019m talking about is also referred to a \u201cdiamond\u201d line because you tend to enter on a diagonal, clipping past the first apex area, letting the car drift out a bit in the middle of the corner where you turn the sharpest (and therefore are at the slowest speed, at the point of the diamond), and then are on an increasing arc, clipping past the second apex and exiting the corner.<\/p>\n<p>Watch drivers on a short oval track, and you\u2019ll see this style used a lot because they carry a lot of entry speed, turn the car the most in the middle of the long corner, and then get a strong exit off the corner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: \u201cIs it better to treat the double apex corner as a single apex corner or is there room for a little more brake release \u2014 or quick blip of the throttle \u2014 to gain a bit more \u201cmid-corner\u201d speed through the short stretch of track?\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-32205","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\/32205","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=32205"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32206,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32205\/revisions\/32206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}