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Originally Posted by RT-BRZ
Standard disclaimer: I usually make into the top 1/2 to 1/3 in OVR in the past on a crappy lot and I'm by far not an expert.
I don't know if I would put much stock in where you finished in this event. I haven't seen you drive before but your 1-2 shift seemed very slow. Maybe you were just off this time. I usually try to make sure those shifts are quick and smooth so that I don't have too much lag (mental and physical) in handling the course. My experience has been that if I'm off on that shift then I'm off overall.
Just take some of the things you learned about the tires this time, the fact that they are scrubbed in now and carry it to the next events. A change in tires wouldn't throw you off that much really so just chalk this one up to a bad day.
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Thanks for the input. I had a much better day at our second event at this location (4th for the year in total). The tires did come to life after the first event.
I picked up a co-driver and paired the videos side by side. He does hillclimbs and a lot of autox in the past, but is getting back into it. You're 100% right by the 1-2 shift comment. He was a good amount ahead after the shift (pause the video to see). I'm actually new to manuals in the last year and don't have it down to 100% muscle memory yet, as other drivers do.
Here's the comparison video:
https://youtu.be/xaT***VK3kU
I ended up around 40th in PAX out of 100, but I'm pretty sure we were pushing the limit of the car as is. Our top 20 in PAX is usually stacked locally. Hell, Sam Strano was there, Alex Piehl (STH champ, HS prosolo champ), Mike Ferchak (CS champ in an FRS a while back)... plus tons of other crazy good drivers. We were both within 0.2 for clean runs and he would have had me by 0.2 if not for a cone on another run. I asked his feedback on the car and he said the tire pressures were dialed in (37/34 on Yoks) and a front swaybar might help a bit (currently stock). Other than that, there might have been a high 34 in it with better drivers, but certainly not he mid-33's Alex Piehl or even low 34's the other CTRs were running. I have to admit, the CTR is just a quick car. However, I did end up beating 3 of them, just not the other 4 lol. I was pretty pumped I managed to edge out a guy with multiple national wins back in the day in a DS CTR by literally 0.02.