I did a few 1:47 laps and decided to push a little harder on the last turn as I was coming for a 1:46 lap. A7 tires were too hot, track was dirty and I went too hard and early on gas. Bad combination! Damage was mostly cosmetic.
30 seconds: how has he not crashed yet 60 seconds: seriously how has he not crashed yet 90 seconds: my God, this man wants to crash but also won't let it happen Crash: not sure if feeling judgemental or impressed or both lol
Nasty Corvette, sounds amazing! It looks from video/datalog like you are turn in is a bit too early/too slow as you adjusting quite a bit mid corner and quite aggressive on the exits (having to lift). Which is asking for a problem in my book :)
Looks like you got the car setup real nice. Tons of grip but not too tight to understeer, but not too loose to be uncontrollable. I notice you are making fairly large and rapid steering corrections. When I was setting up my AMT camber plates trying to find the right settings for the camber and caster I wanted, I was having a hard time getting higher caster settings with the camber settings I wanted. The lower caster resulted in a looser steering feel and required more wheel turn with steering corrections and lots of back and forth trying to find the preload mid turn. Eventually I got caster high enough that that went away. Anyway, was fun watching you tear it up... you came in just a tad too sharp on that last one and the correction required looked like is unsettle the car and then that final chicane bump on exit was just enough to push traction over the limit.
I'd recommend installing a servo with more resolution or switching to analog in the right leg that connects the ankle. But the steering wheel work was wonderful !
Much easier to learn in a lower HP car (miata). Imagine an egg between your foot and the throttle. Love the exhaust note! Thank you for sharing your unfortunate experience and glad it wasn't worse. 🙏
Lol all a Miata teaches you is to stand on the throttle. You can do it in the breaking zone and still be fine cause all you’ll be doing is 32 mph. There’s a lot of bad habits I see when a low hp drivers step up to something you can actually spin the tires in.
@@dondelchulia3189 If all you're doing in the breaking zones is 32 mph, then you're likely not learning much. :) Low HP cars teach you so much more because they're just that, low HP. Break modulation into the breaking zone, maximizing corner entry and exit speed, race craft, refinement of car control skills just to name a few. All of which also applies to high HP cars but so much more difficult to gain mastery of. It becomes very obvious when drivers have bitten off more than they can handle in high powered cars when they are no where near the car's limit and well beyond their driving skill.
Like someone else said, post your times if you're going to armchair quarterback. Every car is set up differently and everyone's driving style is different. I personally love the oversteer-heavy style he's showing here - and he's obviously very quick.
Car needs stiffer rear arb so it actually will enter a corner and you don’t get that crazy entry understeer like what caused the crash. I’d play with your dampers to get some more turn in too.
Some positive criticism if I may. Please ignore this if this was done on purpose but your throttle control during turns is scary!! I have to commend the work you have done to the car to be so stocky and not letting loose earlier. The constant blobs of throttle midturn upset the balance of the car and I am astonished it didn't spin on the first turn!!! Wow! You do that kind of driving on an open wheeler and it will throw you on the gravel! Also your inputs are violent all around. Slow is smooth smooth is fast. This was choppy AF hence the spin and crash. AGAIN if this was a test and done on purpose more power to you. But in any other case please please consider working on your driving skills, especially with that much power!! Much love and wishing you many miles of fun!!
Man, you got to work on your throttle control. You got to be smoother and the corner that you lost it on you were going way too fast. Otherwise nice video you’re definitely on the limit.
You can tell they are driving the car beyond their capabilities, slow down get it right at a slower speed. Bottoming this person should have been pulled off the course before this happened
The car was pushing out like crazy. He had the wheel turned left quite far, and he still got on the throttle about the same time the front tires got grip.
Looking at your style of driving, I’m not surprised. An accident waiting to happen is what best describes your driving. Strongly recommend you spend some time with a professional instructor via a driver training course.
Hes actually going for it and not driving half assed like 90% of track footage laps on youtube, let the man live mr "im a sim racer i know better i drove a miata once"
@@Garf2O agreed. Car just has too much power for that track layout. First turn of the video and he was smart enough to keep the throttle in through the turn. Letting out would've 100% put him in the wall. Unfortunately next lap he came in much hotter and the tires just couldn't support the demand.
I actually applaud the OP on his driving grit. It takes balls to drive in that manner… but the praise ends there. Corner entry is fine, throttle control is a huge problem however. Try being smoother with your throttle application in corner exits - maintain a certain pressure instead of on/off/on/off in the mid sections. That’s upsetting the balance. Coming from a former C5 and C7 track rat 😉
Thanks, this was going to be a 1:46 lap:-( Next time. Mods are listed here: www.lsxmag.com/features/this-525-hp-c6-grand-sport-is-an-exceptionally-fast-track-toy/
That is a good driving style. Drive it like you stole it. It is a Crash waiting to happen. Car setup looks great, driver looks like he wanted to create a crash video.
There is/was something seriously wrong with this car and/or its tires. It drives like it is on ball bearings and in winter no less. Driver is good to keep it mostly in a straight line, but even his luck ran out
a 1:47 theoretical is a super fast lap time lmao, you can tell how well he was handling all 500hp of that car, you sir are the one that cannot drive if you cannot tell how skillful that driving was