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Originally Posted by 7thgear
do any of you use the "rain line"
long ago i was told that when it rains, you change it up a few feet to the left or right of the main line for better grip.
while others just stay on the same dry line, but i think this is tire compound dependent?
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Any winning racing driver will tell you: Drive where the traction is. Even in the dry, during practice sessions I'll take some varying lines through corners and compare what my butt feels is faster to what the data says is faster and often times my butt was right.
But when it rains, I'll often drive off line, there's usually a bunch more traction because it's a part of the track that has less rubber and oil on it.
If you watched the Formula 1 practice and qualifying sessions from the last race at Brazil you would have seen the F1 drivers doing exactly this the whole time. Going through the corners way off the line because there's a bunch more traction "out there".