@@steffenkawa8374 it was ideal day for the cup,no heat soak because 10 degrees outside,in summer I loose 15/20 km/h at kemmel . Chargecooler could be an option but I want to keep the car as stock as possible due to the value of the car .
Still very fast in the corners. I still lack the control to play with the rear like that. You lifted the gas on purpose to position the car for earlier acceleration. Most likely you had about 220-230hp. My stock exige s2 has the same straight line speed then yours with the power loss🤣
Nice driving, I really enjoyed the complete video! Those direction changes and ultra late braking points 🤤. And the fact that you can go forever with one set of tires and brakes...
Hey Rob, what happened to your GT3? We had an encounter in Spa, remember? 😅 Lotus is also a cool car! Maybe we see each other this season again. I'm in AdR in March 😉
I remember! I still have the GT3 as well, it's currently getting some much needed love to prepare it for the upcoming season. I won't be at AdR in March, but I hope you have a nice trackday!
Best in car track footage on yt. Not sure if it's just a great camera of the FOV or what, but the sensation of speed is the best I've seen and the angle is so immersive! Great driving helps too! :) btw: the captions are great and very funny!
Only just seen this now, but what a great vid! Loved the captions. The amount of time the S2 steals back on corner entry is borderline criminal! Great stuff.
Awesome vibes, Rob! Excellent (and very respectful) driving from you. Less so from the Audi driver at the end… Having to outbrake a car which is only fast on the straights is not ideal on a trackday… but you got that neatly!
Thanks! There will always be drivers like the Audi driver at trackdays. Either through inexperience or through incompetence they completely forget about the etiquette, even when it is specifically called out during the morning driver briefing. As an experienced driver I know this is part of signing up for such "open class" trackdays, maybe one day I will graduate into actual racing and hopefully have more experienced drivers around me at such events :)
Thanks! I'm running the Cup 260 wheels, so 7x16 ET31 and 8x17 ET38, with 195 width tires front and 225 width tires in the rear. I'm using Yokohama A052 semi slicks.
@@DimoS... A baffeld pan is recommend or an oil catch tank. The later exige S2 models have an oil catch tank from factory. I heard that the 1ZZ Pan also fits and it has some baffels. Or you can buy a moroso oil pan.
Thanks! My goal is to always rev match every downshift. On the Porsche pedal box, heel-toe only works with hard braking, so sometimes I have to blip separately
@@RobSpoel I have a Cayman S 987.1 and the pedal box is identical. I agree that heel-toe is tricky to achieve. On a daily basis (soft braking) I use toe-toe braking: half top-foot on brake, the other half top-foot on gaz. That's a lot easier and intuitive for my POV. But you need larger shoes, like sneakers. But you're right, on hard braking I think heel-toe is more efficient, because the brake pedal is way more at the bottom. But that's not easy to switch technic from one corner to the next one 😅 But with toe-toe technic you can give a lot more gaz that you are able to do in the video on soft/average braking
Yeah just bumped into the gate rather than slotting the gear in. It happened because I was distracted simultaneously thinking about wether or not I could safely pass the car in front of Pouhon (i.e. if I could make it in front of them before their steer-in point). In general I don't often have issues with the precision required in the S2 shifter. I'd rather not put stiffer engine mounts to avoid even more cabin noise. I have some improved shifter cables and a strengthening bracket for the shifter on order that I will install next.
The tips I would give would be very different based on the level of the driver! In general, to drive the Exige fast you really need to perfect the racing line and to learn how to carry speed into and out of corners. Once you have the line clean try to brake less hard (same braking point) and trail into the corner better to carry the speed. Once you get the feeling down brake later and harder to get the same entry speed result. The car lacks power which other cars can use to compensate for mediocre racing lines!
Good spot. The car will be getting a whole new LSD in a few weeks to improve traction out of certain corners and hopefully alleviate the braking instability.
I have a Simlabs rig with Simucube and Heusinkveld parts. I went into my GT3 and measured all kinds of angles and distances between pedals, seat, shifter, wheel, and tried to set the simrig up as close to that as possible. Then I moved the triple screens directly behind the wheel to give a really wide field of view and spent a lot of time tweaking the sim software in terms of force feedback and field of view and realistic head/neck motion compensation. The result is a great sim that I love to spend time in a lot and that is actually useful as a training tool for real life!
Thanks! Believe it or not but I was still being "careful" and approaching the limit from below, since this was my second fast lap of the day (lap 3 including counting the outlap). If only the day hadn't been so incredibly hot to destroy laptimes after this stint, maybe I could push for that 1:28.xx sometime...
