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Old 10-20-2011, 01:45 PM   #221
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Originally Posted by Spaceywilly View Post
Nice find. Seems like the ft86 was braking way early for some reason. Seemed like the BMW driving had to slam on the brakes at every corner, and the cars in front of the ft86 would actually pull away from it in the braking zone, which is the opposite of what usually happens. Might've just been driver inexperience.
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Originally Posted by MannyO View Post
It's probably a combination of that and a fear of crashing a prototype/mule. No need to go all out when you're just trying to collect data and iron out some kinks.

I would also add that because this is an endurance race it's possible that the FT86 driver was operating under a fuel and/or brake conserve strategy...been there, done that...it's almost harder than driving 10/10th becuase you instinctively want to be racing with everyone around you and have to remember to dial it back a notch or two.
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