What set yesterday's course apart was a seeming endless supply of big sweepers and tight hairpins. As a newbie (all first years are newbies) this course design demanded several things from the 996 and I.
1) You will learn to sustain a powered drift.
2) You will learn to shift into 3rd and back again with some degree of smoothness. (work in progress)
3) You will learn to settle your car.
This course was not a hammer the brakes, hammer the gas course. Two weeks ago that was the theme. There was so much more driver education on Sunday's course.
I think in the 5 or 6 AX's i've participated in there has been a such a varied design that it behooves the club to do some soul searching on what designs functionally teach drivers. Theme one after the Driving School techniques.
Things that might be interesting would be a HUGE off or on camber 180+, an extended rhythm section, an 'open ended' Pitch and Catch (for Greg Phillips), and what not...
My favorite sections of yesterdays course were:
1) The powered exit after the slalom
2) The top of the course, soup to nuts.
3) The right turn up from the swale after the hair pin...
Fun!
b
Bryan