{"id":41768,"date":"2022-10-11T07:00:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T14:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=41768"},"modified":"2024-03-23T09:20:30","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T16:20:30","slug":"q-what-line-should-i-drive-in-a-banked-corner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-what-line-should-i-drive-in-a-banked-corner\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: What line should I drive in a banked corner?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41769 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Ask-Ross-image-5-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/em><strong>Q<\/strong>: <em>\u201cHow do you determine your line in a bowl? They&#8217;re always the hardest for me to figure out. Single apex, double apex, ease out and come back in, there are so many variations on a line that I feel like I&#8217;ve never found the one that clicks as the fastest.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>: When you talk of a \u201cbowl,\u201d I\u2019m assuming you\u2019re referring to corners that are banked, and therefore feel as though you\u2019re driving around the inside of a bowl.<\/p>\n<p>As a general guideline, spend as much time as you can in the banking. That usually means turning in a little earlier than usual to get your car down to the inside earlier to take advantage of the camber in the track, then stay in it as long as you can before unwinding the steering and \u201cpopping\u201d out of the bowl. Of course, that can be taken too far, to the point where you\u2019re just hugging the inside of the corner \u2014 that will usually be slower. But your goal is to drive more where the track provides the most grip, and in this case, that means in the most highly banked part of the track as you can.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, this guideline applies to other types of corners, too. For example, if a corner has been patched with new pavement or concrete that has more grip, then drive on it, even if that means you\u2019re not on the typical ideal line. If it has less grip, drive a line that avoids it as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>You began your question asking how to determine your line, and the real answer is that you need to experiment to find out what works best. It can be slightly different from car to car, for different track and weather conditions, and how much banking the corner has. The only way to know for sure is to try different lines, and use some way of measuring the difference (stop watch, data system, predictive timer, video). But if you follow my guideline of staying in the banking as long as you can, that\u2019ll give you a good start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: \u201cHow do you determine your line in a bowl? There are so many variations on a line that I feel like I&#8217;ve never found the one that clicks as the fastest.\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-41768","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\/41768","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=41768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41770,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41768\/revisions\/41770"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}