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Originally Posted by ruturaj001
Downside:
I got passed by everyone who participated, including a guy with last gen BRZ, BMW wagon. A guy in Miata passed me twice.
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That's not a downside. HPDE is not a race. You can't win at HPDE. You can only lose (your car and/or your health/life). Drive at the pace you are comfortable and use faster cars as reference of how to drive faster (driving line, braking points, etc.)
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Originally Posted by ruturaj001
I lost a lot of time by not hitting brakes and letting car slow down on it's own, it's my mindset though that would take some time to change on track.
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There are certainly some mindset difference between street driving and track driving. Braking and driving line are the biggest ones. I struggled for a long time with effectively using the entire track - it was automatic for me to keep to the right and not use the entire width. For braking, I found using brake markers to help - chose one fairly back from the turn-in point, then each lap brake a little closer to the corner. Each time you should brake as hard as you can and coast to the turn-in point. You know you reached the right braking marker when you don't coast at all between braking and turning.