How to Prioritise Circuit Corners for Maximum Benefit

In today’s tutorial, I'm taking a look at how to prioritise corners at a circuit to help reduce lap time.
Not all corners on a circuit have equal importance, as carrying good speed into, and more importantly out of, can result in various time differences depending on the type of turn.
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Therefore, it’s important that a fast driver is conscious of which corners he should focus his attention, both regarding adapting racing line and car set up to suit the most significant turns.
Our professional driver, Scott Mansell will examine:
- Why we should prioritise corners
- What types of corners?
- Which are the most important corners?
- Most common areas to find time
- A brief introduction to finding the best compromise with setup
When we’re examining a circuit as a whole, it’s important to know that each corner will have a varying level of importance, or rather a varying significance to affecting overall lap time.
There are a couple of ways a turn can affect lap time. They can either directly benefit, or hinder, lap time due to the nature of the corner and following straight or due to how challenging they are to a driver.
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[@rookieracers4858]

Could you make a driver fitness video showing how to physically prepare for racing

[@HumbugShow]

Just dropping a comment 5 years later so you remember that people like me are still learning from this.
One other thing, the time lost is relative to the area between lines instead of the height difference of the lines.

[@geofflore4826]

The absolute best racing instruction videos! Could you do a video on wheel to wheel racing techniques/strategy ?

[@JeremyMedicina]

I was putting too much equity in the specific corners themselves of a track which meant I completely missed out on the chance to use this simple approach to prioritizing corners. It also subsequently helped me make more informative interpretations of my telemetry data in order to plan better practice strategies. Thank you all for these invaluable (and free!) educational videos. These modules have provided me facets of crucial information and insight that have further helped me get the most out of occasional track days, as well as sim racing. Cheers!

[@JTthestreetking]

Midway thru I am thinking, how is this a free video.
very informative!

[@jcpabc]

Absolutely the best! Just found you guys. I started tracking on 2009. I am waiting for the alignment setup tutorial! Thank you very much! Due to a big wing installed, I had heavily understeering problem. I lowered down the front and softer the shock, it helps a bit but the back still won't lose.

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Great videos. I'm absolutely loving them.

[@wmagaiver231]

Thank you! Cheers from Brazil.

[@phaselead_dj]

Thank you for your another awesome tutorial. It helps me so much

[@cuoresportivo738]

very helpful video! like all the others..Can't wait to see the videos about the setup in detail. Thats a very interesting theme for me ;)

[@Driver61]

Thanks for your positive feedback, setup tutorials coming soon! Cheers, Scott.

[@phillipmiller2174]

Best video from you I have seen 🎉 thanks

[@gadirigadiri2763]

great, thank you so much 💐

[@AVERYhornyMrDinosaur]

i prioritize the hotwings im gonna eat after i beat everyone in the race

[@TheNextCorner-original]

Thank you

[@Driver61]

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love it

[@bigczad9869]

Can you do a vid about fitness? We would all appreciate it bro🙌🏻 Driver 61

[@11531337]

🎶 the red car and the blue car had a race 🎶 3:13

[@onethirdmayo8556]

I am thinking about this for my go kart track, there`s a lot to hairpins connected to 2 right angle turns, i guess the first and last hairpins are the most important corners?

[@hsieh811]

what if: "Fastest corner into 2nd longest straight" or "2nd fastest corner into the longest straight"? thats a headache

[@loganm2766]

He meant mid-slow speed corner into a long straight. That simplifies it