30/07/2026
Track drivers: want to find your lost lap time without spending a cent on the car?
Most understeer on corner exit isn't the car. Watch where the weight goes.
Brake, and load piles onto the front tyres. Turn, and it shifts to the outside. Get on the throttle, and it goes rearward, off the tyres still trying to steer.
That last one is what I see most at track days. The car runs wide on exit, the driver decides it understeers, and starts looking at setup.
Nine times out of ten, the throttle just arrived before the steering had finished its work.
Think of it as a budget. A hundred units of grip, and you can only spend them once. Ask for a hundred and ten and the tyre slides. That's all understeer and oversteer are.
You can't stop the weight moving. Only how fast it moves. That part is technique, not the car.
In twenty years of watching onboard laps, the time is almost never lost where the driver thinks it is. The Onboard Checklist is ten checks, in the order the corner happens. Play your own footage back against it and it shows you which phase is costing you.
It's free. Comment CHECKLIST and I'll send it over.
