{"id":38031,"date":"2021-10-26T11:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-26T18:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=38031"},"modified":"2024-03-23T09:16:59","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T16:16:59","slug":"q-how-do-i-go-faster-in-my-new-porsche-cayman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-how-do-i-go-faster-in-my-new-porsche-cayman\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: How do I go faster in my new Porsche Cayman?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Q<\/strong>: \u201cI\u2019ve recently gotten a Porsche Cayman for the track, and I\u2019m a bit disappointed that I\u2019m not a lot faster than I was in my previous car. Sure, I\u2019m faster on the straights, but that\u2019s just horsepower, and not me. I don\u2019t seem to going any faster through the corners, which I think I should be. Am I wrong? What am I missing?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A<\/strong>: One area that I\u2019ve seen over and over again where drivers under-drive Porsches is in the brake zones. As you know, they have amazing brakes – so amazing that many drivers don\u2019t use them enough. A simple exercise to do the next time you\u2019re on track is to do some maximum\/ABS stops (after checking your mirrors!) to see just how hard you can use them, making sure that your initial application of the pedal is very fast and hard. I\u2019ve seen very experienced drivers shave a lot of time off their lap times by doing this, just because they didn\u2019t realize how good the brakes are. When you get to your usual braking point (BoB), just hammer the pedal and see what happens.<\/p>\n

Of course, once you\u2019ve seen just how quickly these brakes slow you down, it\u2019s easy to over-slow for corners. So, that\u2019s when you start moving the entire brake zone – where you begin and end braking – later towards the corner. Hey, you might find that when you really use the brakes, you\u2019ll slow down so much that you\u2019re going to have to get off the brakes and accelerate again to get to the corner!<\/p>\n

After doing this for a while, and getting more out of the brakes, focus on corner entry speed. That means either moving the whole brake zone in further, or beginning to release the brakes sooner. Remember the brake release is a \u201cspeed fine-tuning tool.\u201d Gradually release them sooner and sooner, increasing your corner entry speed by 1-2 MPH each lap or so, until it\u2019s beginning to hurt your exit speed.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s best to pick no more than two corners on the track to work on this, knowing that when you get comfortable with more speed in those corners, you\u2019ll naturally find yourself doing the same in other corners.<\/p>\n

Finally, you\u2019re not alone. In fact, I\u2019ve answered questions from other drivers who have switched to a Porsche and wanted some advice about learning to go faster in it. Check out this one: https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-how-do-i-adapt-to-driving-a-porsche-gt3-from-a-bmw-m4\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q: \u201cI\u2019ve recently gotten a Porsche Cayman for the track, and I\u2019m a bit disappointed that I\u2019m not a lot faster than I was in my previous car. Sure, I\u2019m faster on the straights, but that\u2019s just horsepower, and not me. I don\u2019t seem to going any faster through the corners, which I think I should be. Am I wrong? What am I missing?\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-38031","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\/38031","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=38031"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38036,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38031\/revisions\/38036"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}