I'm not all the way through the video, so if these are things you have already hit upon at a later date, forgive me for rehashing, but I noticed a few things about your driving that I think might help you to get some better lap times. From your last video, you mentioned going down in spring and shock oil, because of a lack of steering. Then as your speed increased, you realized you were traction rolling, and took out some verticality in your shock to reduce your packing. May I suggest you go back to your kit stock spring and oil in the default position now? Because a cleaner shock with a slower oil, and a slightly stiffer spring, are exactly how you would work around a bandaid like flattening out the shock angle. I think you might be surprised at how much what you used to think was slow steering, is actually right where you want it now. Additionally, one thing I have never heard you talk about, is your radio settings. Specifically exponential settings, and curve. You have a modem radio that is capable of having every parameter adjusted in the menu, and fine tuned to a level we could only dream of in RC 20 years ago. Take advantage of that. I think part of the problem with over driving the car, is that you're feeding it way too much input. Let the radio smooth some of that out for you. Slow down your initial steering, but keep the total movement, so instead of a steering curve being linear / make it more like a laid down ) so the initial steering speed is slower, so if you start to turn right at landing, when your suspension is still bound up, you won't be as prone to traction roll, because you won't have as much steering. Do the same for your throttle curve, so you are taming down the initial trigger response rate, for all the same reasons. Often times, especially newbies, will have a tendency to really sea-saw and hack at the controls, full throttle, full lock, etc. Adding in that expo just gives you a little more time to think and refine that input. You would be amazed at the number of pros that have massive amounts of expo dialed in. Something else I noticed is that you seem to have a lot of drag brake dialed in. Being a former brushless racer, I felt I needed that drag brake feel of a brushless motor to keep my groove going. Nope. These cars are designed around high mid corner speeds, dial down the drag, so the car dives less, and is less prone to traction rolling. Dial in the stiffer front end, the slower steering, and less drag brake, and I think you will overcome a lot of your own worst enemies in lap time consistency.
This seems like it's really fun
You can totally go off the deep end when you get into tuning the cars, driving technique etc. I'm at the bottom of the ocean with it at the moment.
I'm not all the way through the video, so if these are things you have already hit upon at a later date, forgive me for rehashing, but I noticed a few things about your driving that I think might help you to get some better lap times.
From your last video, you mentioned going down in spring and shock oil, because of a lack of steering. Then as your speed increased, you realized you were traction rolling, and took out some verticality in your shock to reduce your packing. May I suggest you go back to your kit stock spring and oil in the default position now? Because a cleaner shock with a slower oil, and a slightly stiffer spring, are exactly how you would work around a bandaid like flattening out the shock angle. I think you might be surprised at how much what you used to think was slow steering, is actually right where you want it now.
Additionally, one thing I have never heard you talk about, is your radio settings. Specifically exponential settings, and curve. You have a modem radio that is capable of having every parameter adjusted in the menu, and fine tuned to a level we could only dream of in RC 20 years ago. Take advantage of that.
I think part of the problem with over driving the car, is that you're feeding it way too much input. Let the radio smooth some of that out for you. Slow down your initial steering, but keep the total movement, so instead of a steering curve being linear / make it more like a laid down ) so the initial steering speed is slower, so if you start to turn right at landing, when your suspension is still bound up, you won't be as prone to traction roll, because you won't have as much steering.
Do the same for your throttle curve, so you are taming down the initial trigger response rate, for all the same reasons.
Often times, especially newbies, will have a tendency to really sea-saw and hack at the controls, full throttle, full lock, etc. Adding in that expo just gives you a little more time to think and refine that input. You would be amazed at the number of pros that have massive amounts of expo dialed in.
Something else I noticed is that you seem to have a lot of drag brake dialed in. Being a former brushless racer, I felt I needed that drag brake feel of a brushless motor to keep my groove going. Nope. These cars are designed around high mid corner speeds, dial down the drag, so the car dives less, and is less prone to traction rolling.
Dial in the stiffer front end, the slower steering, and less drag brake, and I think you will overcome a lot of your own worst enemies in lap time consistency.
You're doing all right ,you just need to get there earlier and practice more😊