Don't knock yourself down, Trev. That was a good effort. While you may have been running in the top 5 for a good stretch, at the end of the day, even when you fell back a bit you made the right calls not to fight too hard to keep the positions, which you only lost because of some unfortunate mistakes on your part. Had you had another 15 minutes or so I'm confident you would have got all 4 of those places back, because that train was bound to turn into carnage. In terms of advice, I feel like you're taking some very shallow lines through a lot of corners, or turning in too early for others. For example, you enter turn 1 very, very close to the inside, which really compromises your entry speed. You can definitely carry a lot more if you open it up, best example of it was on the start of lap 6. The worst example would have been at the start of lap 8. Surtees (T4) is a good example of turning in too early. You can really carry loads of speed down the back straight if you turn in really late and aim for a late apex, lap 5 was almost perfect here, if you'd been on the gas a second or so later you would have been flying! On almost every other lap you're turning in so early that it's really costing you. As I said at the start though, cracking effort mate, coming away with only a 3x for 'off-tracks' in a split like this is a great acheivement and running in the top 5 for as long as you did is brilliant, you'll be finding yourself there loads more once you mop up those last little inconsistencies! Keep your head up, man!
Don't knock yourself down, Trev. That was a good effort. While you may have been running in the top 5 for a good stretch, at the end of the day, even when you fell back a bit you made the right calls not to fight too hard to keep the positions, which you only lost because of some unfortunate mistakes on your part. Had you had another 15 minutes or so I'm confident you would have got all 4 of those places back, because that train was bound to turn into carnage.
In terms of advice, I feel like you're taking some very shallow lines through a lot of corners, or turning in too early for others. For example, you enter turn 1 very, very close to the inside, which really compromises your entry speed. You can definitely carry a lot more if you open it up, best example of it was on the start of lap 6. The worst example would have been at the start of lap 8.
Surtees (T4) is a good example of turning in too early. You can really carry loads of speed down the back straight if you turn in really late and aim for a late apex, lap 5 was almost perfect here, if you'd been on the gas a second or so later you would have been flying! On almost every other lap you're turning in so early that it's really costing you.
As I said at the start though, cracking effort mate, coming away with only a 3x for 'off-tracks' in a split like this is a great acheivement and running in the top 5 for as long as you did is brilliant, you'll be finding yourself there loads more once you mop up those last little inconsistencies! Keep your head up, man!
Thanks for that I will endeavor to look a little more at my entries. Always good to get some advice.