Fair cop on the rye house thing, but i'd just like to say that the reporter doing 1 minute laps in a rotax, oh my good god. I did a 1:00.69 minute lap on the long course layout (With the sharper hairpin) in the twin engine pro-kart (much slower and heavier than the rotax) with standing water ALL OVER THE TRACK. I was wheelspinning up the whole main straight!sdminus wrote:Urm.... He is a very talented driver. If you want to know how good he is there is an article online someplace which takes an every day motorsport reporter, a brand new rotax kart, Lewis hamilton and rye house kart track.
The reporter did track days etc and thought he was a good driver. He managed laps of just over 1 Minute. He got down to 50 seconds by the end of the day.
Lewis Hamilton managed a low 36 second lap after a dozen laps from memory. This was in a machine that neither driver had ever driven .
This was a few years ago now but if you entered a rotax max race at Rye house and you cut 36 second laps you would be looking at a comfy win.
Go to a Proper race day and watch some of these kids race. They will take your breath away. It is widely recognised that between the age of 8 and 14 kids develop the basic skills which later become 2nd nature. It is also very rare for anybody who did not race at those age's to be in the top percent later in life. If 100% of people on this forum practised every day for the next 10 years i doubt anybody would be able to drive a f1 car with the skill he does.
At the end of the day it takes more than just knowing where the racing line is. Its about understanding driving and the effects. eg
Early apex, late apex, Apex, Referance points, Braking zones, Rotation, Threshold braking, Trail breaking, Slip angle, brake turning, constant radious corners, decreasing radious corners, heel and toe, exit speed, Dump shift, etc etc etc..
Scott
36 seconds is pretty respectable though. I drove a rotax for the first time the other day and im a pretty good driver; there was a tiny wet patch on one of the corners and the tyres were a bit shot but i couldnt for the life of me break 38 seconds. Best lap time was 39:00.06. Maybe on a hotter day
Hamilton is king though, despite getting a driving ban lmfao.