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Originally Posted by adc
I find that very few people brake as late and deep as the car is capable of, no matter what the car is. I catch most everybody under hard braking at the end of the straights.
I’m guessing that’s because the penalty of getting it wrong can be severe. And when you brake from 150-160mph, even an error of 2 yards too late can spit you in the grass like nothing.
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As a tidbit, in actual fact, most of the time the "catching up" is made in the straight before braking. Due to dynamics, the faster two cars travel, the larger the distance gap between the two cars for a given time gap. So when a car catches up to another one in front of it while accelerating, the distance between the two cars can remain constant or even increase slightly. It is only when the cars slow down during braking at the end of the straight that the distance gap between the two cars will diminish significantly, giving the false perception that the "catching up" was achieved during braking.