Very useful starting point. I spent three days last week there in my 996 - an utter blast. The video is great but when you drive it in real life it's an amazing experience. Thanks for taking the time to out this together !
Great walk-through. I've driven this track quiet a few times however I've never had any instructors or analysis of my lines. This is a great insight into what is a quick time.
Thanks Pete. Keep in mind I'm just an amateur driver myself so I may not have it perfect, but nonetheless I hope you find some improvements in laptime!
Came across this by accident and your speed and lines were very similar to my rx8. You carry some impressive corner exit speed onto the straights. Going to your tighter entry lines on t2 and t10 a go when next down there in September.
Great video. I watched this prior to taking my MX5 to Phillip Island for the first time late last year. Being new to any sort of track or high performance driving this was awesome for giving me some confidence prior to getting on the track myself. I was at the island for a come try day with the MSCA also and they had Cam McConville talk through the track turn by turn. There wasn't much difference between that and your guide. Hope you do this for a few of the other tracks in Vic!
Hi Brendan, I've been building my own racecar for about 18 months now, and going to Phillip island next week for my first track day. Thanks for the video, was a great help. Cheers, James
This is a very good instructional video. And the guy in the Porsche gives a good indication of how much a driver difference makes.Only two things I picked, not that yours is wrong. Just my ideas. Brake as late as possible into turn 2 and hold the brake just enough to keep the car from spinning out ( should feel like it is going to rotate -360) until you get to around mid corner, between the two apexes. And turn 9, I like to stay out wide and bring it in more gradually, reducing the amount of understeer going over the crest.I know a lot of people could benefit from this video. Well done. Please share people..
Your laptimes are still solid! I noticed your lap in the video from about a week ago you tend to hold inside all the way round. Try the "double apex" idea, it should work for you.
Mate this is a great vid, we hit P.I. yesterday for the 1st time for me and i watched this vid prior, but after 25 laps yesterday mate i gotta say....you can steer mate, great vid.
Thanks, I made this guide video a fair while ago now, so the car has progressed a fair bit from what it was like to drive back then.... nowadays its got twice the power, feels like a rocket. Hope you had a good 1st day at phillip island... assume you will be coming back again soon?
Thanks BB. Great instructional vid. I'm planning to visit The Island for the first time very soon. I have watched your vid multiple times and will be watching many more times before I get there. Getting the best out of a track is obviously more than just having a powerful car. It looked and felt like you were having a blast :) Cheers for the upload.
@@Bralph888 That's awesome! I'm actually building my own new sim setup, still probably a few months before I have all the bits setup and find some room in the house for it.
@@Bbeavis cool, i have g29 for$300 canadian dollars, its good enough. For a rig i use a livingroom chair from the 60's with armrests and built the rig out of it with 40$ of material, its smaller and stronger than most and simple, basic, i reccomend you check it out if you are making your own, but not if you are getting a premade one. (Mine is very small and would fold into a (medium size) closet if needed when not in use. Email me if u want a photo lol, u will laugh. Practical for racing long sessions though! (Verycoldinhere@live.com) And the youtube channel driver61 is high level racing advise from a man who just joined iracing, deff check it out,
@@Bralph888 My current gear is an old G25 with some MDF wood frame and an old used race car seat. My plan is to replace the whole lot with some more modern gear, I'm going to see if i can get some good used items from ebay. Good luck with your sim racing, I hope you get more Phillip Island wins!
Love me some Phillip Island Circuit...check out my Yamaha YZF-R1 goin full on in a RIDE4...3 Lap race turning to a night finish....intense! just posted it too....
@@flo13boe Oh how interesting, I wasn't aware of that. I'm honored that it is being helpful to others. I wonder if there is some legal thing around using other peoples content in their app.
@@Bbeavis Sure, it is legal - you've uploaded it on RU-vid publicly. I'm sorry that you question that.. I though it's a good promotion for your video and helpful for other drivers.
@@flo13boe Now you have me thinking... So, bands upload songs to RU-vid publicly, but surely I cannot legally create an app that plays their songs and profits from that?
Instructions are too confusing, I think I am a car now. Honestly really good. Would you have gone faster around the corners if the 911 wasn't there? I assume you used it as a reference to show how much faster you were.
Thanks so much for this video, I've only just come across it even though I've been going to PI for years now lol. How would you prepare differently for a heavier, higher powered RWD car in comparison? I'd love to understand which parts of my laps I'm losing the most time as I'm probably atleast a few seconds off where the cars potential would be... :)
Thanks Brett. Hard to say how a Commodore would change the approach as my experience is pretty much exclusively the MX-5, logically not a whole lot different I would think. Just a heavier set car with different gearing, but really the lines and approach to each corner should be the same.
@@Bbeavis thanks for that, I'm definitely looking forward to getting out there again soon and working on my lines as from my video below from a while ago where I was doing 1:52.0 I can see some corners I'm turning in too early and impacting my exit line and speed... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-EBQYGt9elYk.html