What I learned from 1000+ laps of Barber MSP! 

First, nice video. Please don't take my comments as criticism, but "additional info" after 2000+ laps at Barber. 🙂 The track was repaved last year, so the seams and bumps are gone. In fact, some of the compression at T3 is gone. Entering the T2 carousel after T1, that brief uphill section is a big aid to reduce entry speed, especially in a heavier car. You should be able to move to full throttle at the apex of T1 (slightly before if the car allows) and maintain it to that uphill. There are few places at Barber where uphill sections can serve as traction multipliers and this is one of them. You are spot on about T2. I teach my students lift-throttle oversteer there and T16. The key to T2 is patience. The biggest mistake at T4 is making an early apex. Almost every driver I see does it. The Esses (aka Kink) is dangerous and really hard to get right. I have a shirt that has printed on the front "I'm flat through the kink..." and the back has "and other lies told at Barber". :-) I am flat there in my Miata NB and 944, not in my Cayman S, Panoz or stock car. T13 - I think is more dangerous than T4 because of the lack of runoff to the left. If you are too early in T12, you track out left at the top of the hill and, if you go four off, introduce yourself to the wall. One last thing - some versions of the track map have 17 turns and some 16. This has changed over time, but can be confusing. The current version is 17 turns. Just move T15 to the top of the map, put T16 where T15 is and replace T16 with T17. Again, excellent video.

Thanks for making this. Exactly the kind of detail I've been looking for to understand better how to drive Barber a little bit quicker. Your pointers will make it even more interesting and fun. Helpful editing.

It looks like a great track! Nice job!

I enjoyed the video. Thanks for sharing. Lots of great info. Looking forward to going back soon.

You gave me the biggest smile the way you are comfortable sliding the Z06 around. Got to work on that, but I'm an old HPDE instr, not an IP.

Thank you so much for making this video!!

This is a great video!

This is the antithesis of “smooth is fast” but really enjoyed the video nonetheless.

Great vid Russ, love seein that C5Z do work. Never driven this track, but it sure seems to have some technical challenges to it and seems to need some real seat time to shave those last couple seconds, within reason. Hope all is well over there!

Helpful video. This car looks like it would be a lot faster if the trail brake oversteer was dialed out of it. Of course, im guessing thats half the fun of driving it!

I'm going there first time for a lemons race Feb ,18 this should help.

Great video! Kind of surprises me that you are allowing that much oversteer on purpose. It looks like oversteer caused from understeer during entry

Thanks for video. Any advice for a FWD GTI with around 400 torque and 350+ HP, big brakes and Michelin PS4S tires? This will be my time on track this January 2020 at Barber.

Great video. I'm hoping to make it to Barber for a track day this year. When/where are these events scheduled?

Do u have video from when John Gleason won race there last year

Am I the only one who thinks this car sounds like the original Bullitt Mustang? I’m assuming it has to do with the recording equipment

Nice descriptions but why show a lap where you made mistakes in at least 2 corners? do you really not have a lap where you did all the corners correctly? Is that for your 2000 lap video?

I live right next two turn two across the cahaba

The fact that you're correcting a lot says you are at the edge, good driving! What kind of lap time did you run?