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Originally Posted by Kgolf31
Just looking at the opening slalom, I can tell you're not looking ahead enough.
The opening slalom you're taking each cone like a straight line, then suddenly yanking at the wheel to correct, and doing that at every cone. You should be weaving through a slalom, not straight line...turn, straight line...turn; etc.
As well, it seems you're waiting too late to turn the car, it is very abrupt and sudden. The car doesn't like that.
As well, it seems as so you have a death grip on the wheel. Every turn is almost forced like you are fighting the car. Throughout each turn you have multiple turn-ins where you are adding extra input into the wheel. You should be at a constant steering angle throughout the turn and modulate with your gas. Best way to do this is to go to a Cloverleaf on a freeway, take the turn at a single input and use the gas to modulate the line throughout the turn. And just keep on doing this over, and over, and over.
I don't know how tall you are, or anything like that...but you seem to be sitting away from the steering wheel quite a bit. I adjust my seat so that I can put my arms over the steerting wheel and my wrists sit over the wheel limp
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Thanks for the tips. The opening slalom was a scratch. I DNF'ed immediately as I stupidly went the wrong way around the first cone, so I wouldn't pay attention to that run too much. My keeper run was run
#11 of 12 at 12:36 and I think I was very much improved (if you've got time, please take a look and let me know).
Death grip - maybe! I'll pay more attention to that next time. I am the correct distance away from the wheel though (wrists rest just past the top of the wheel with arms extended), but I could try moving an inch closer possibly. I will work on being more smooth with steering input for sure!
Times were (with direct links to timestamp):
57.138 DNF
53.880 (+1)
49.898 (+1)
50.228 (+1)
50.629 (+1)
47.829
50.729 (tried starting left instead of right on the 2nd slalom, bad choice)
48.170
48.401 (+1)
49.005 (+1)
46.630 (best)
46.906 (took it out of gear at the end of the first slalom, for some reason)
But yeah, here's a
direct link to my best run. You can see the difference between the first DNF and the later run.