Finally…
Went for this season’s first winter track session. The previous two seasons have been frustrating as I havn’t been able to match that golden best lap time from 2020.
I have been tweaking and adjusting the setup and practiced on the track again and again. But just havn’t been able to find the lap times from that one session in 2020.
But today it only took me 15 min. and I was under the 2020 lap time four times. I went from 32:32 in 2020 to 31:97 today and I even had a skip with the rear wheels in one of the hairpins.
Setup is the same that I struggled with last year:
My version of a track deck
3-links
4wd
6354 motors
12s4p 40T cells battery
Bichop Racing Wheels 140mm.
Bindings
I was focussing on two things in the session. First the eskate line that I wrote about in a few posts up, which mainly is cutting distance focusing on travel least mesters. Second going to the limit.
As I drove around the track I was wondering why I all of a sudden was this much better compared to previous years. I am pretty sure it’s because of T-Race. I created T-Race last year and was doing sessions consistently through all spring last year.
With this standardized track I could compare myself to all the other racers out there. I saw that there were people out there who was faster than me. So I saw that it was possible to go faster, and that forced me to push harder. If They can I can! I also immediately felt that racing the T-Race track would make me better. Both as a racer and overall riding my boards.
On my winter track I could accelerate sooner and break later. Also had a better feeling of how much I could push the grip.
There are no doubt on my mind that it have been T-Race that have pushed my limits in a way “just” practicing on the track couldn’t.
The cool thing about my winter track is that it serves as a place where I can monitor how any changes done to the setup or racing style affects my lap times. I now have a bag log of data from the track dating back to 2018.
Also the increased ramp down time @Schtekarsten suggested works pretty well. Make the transition from throttle to breaking much better.
