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Really cool to see the comparisons in a total break down, seems like the only real area the red polo has the larger time gain is coming onto the straight as to be expected.
Like you'd already know sometimes more power isn't the key to fast lap times, until your conditioned to the car and understand how and when to apply power, braking, proper lines etc, more power in the wrong hands generally leads to overshooting corners, ending up on the wrong lines and overall actually being slower then if your in a slower car making less mistakes and sticking to the lines. I've raced R/C cars for years, from 1/8th Gas buggies through to 1/10 electric on road cars, and it's the exact same concept. It's only the guys who are more experienced and know how to utilise the power, that then become faster when controlling a higher powered car.
Also people underestimate the ability to produce consistent laps one after the other. Of course you have to be fast aswell but so many times in R/C racing you would see guys with the fastest overall laps for the day but near the back end of the pack overall because they have just done a one hit wonder lap, but then every other lap is 3-4 seconds slower, which over the time of a 10 minute race adds up to nearly a whole extra lap of time.
That bit over 1 sec time difference between the two cars per lap to people may not seem like a lot considering the two cars different mods and power etc but when you get to the pointy end of competition even 0.1 of a second is a lot per lap. Imagine if you were to for argument sake, put the two head to head in a proper race of something like 50 laps, that 1 second difference would nearly accumulate to a whole minute ahead, which in the scheme of thing is a lot. Anyways I won't go on to much.
Off the times in your silver one you can see your driving ability is there, and you know your lines well. It will just be a matter of time before your in the 62's in the red one. Also congrats on beating your PB
Originally Posted by Machine
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