Tips for Carolina Motorsports Park

Crawford DP car
1. This turn you brake very late, amazingly late actually about the 3 marker. I was getting into the rev limiter going into this corner. You will trail brake in here quite a bit because there is a little tiny bit of banking so you get some good grip. You can just place the car slightly on the curb on the left hand side.

2. This is a flat out curve, it is hairy but flat. You can do it flat but you will slide out a lot and not get the right line for T3, getting T3 right is much more important, you need to sacrifice this corner if you have to. It is much better on newer tires!

3. This corner is a late apex, you need to get on the power as soon as you can! It is a weird corner because you can’t see the apex curb or the exit curb very well, so you have to have confidence in where you are going! You can nudge up against this apex curb, but you cannot use the exit curb because it is so bumpy! But it is better to get on the power here soon!

4. This corner is important to carry the speed into. You need to put the left side of the car right on the apex curb. Then you want to get back to the power and give it a burst of power in between T4 and T5.

5. This corner is a throw away corner it really doesn’t matter because it is T6 and T7 that matter, I would push out to the exit curb and then collect it up and drive back out.

6. This is a pretty fun corner, you again need to sacrifice this corner for the last corner so you can get out on the power! You want to try and get the car rotated, and then get back on the power, because that is important!

7. This is a corner where you can get on the power pretty soon, because there is a slight bit of banking. Being on the power soon is important here. Do not use either the exit or the apex curb.

8. You can brake really late here, and carry 2 mph more speed in then you think and it will grip magically! You can nudge against the apex curb and then get back on the power and you can let it out a little bit too much and get on the exit curb. This is a place to try some stuff because it seems to not do anything to odd.

9. I am not sure why this is a corner. It is flat easy.

10. This is a fun corner, if it wasn’t for the big asphalt patch in the center of the kink it would be flat easy! You want to stay away from the asphalt as much as possible because it upsets the car the least! It is just a slight tap of the brake and then back on it hard.

11. This is a corner where braking deeply is very important, this is where you can make up a lot time. You just drive in pretty hard and then get it rotated in the middle and get on the power hard coming out. This is what all these last corners are about, get it straight and go!

12. Same deal here the big focus is to get on the power soon. Just try and get the car turned and then get back on the power big time! The traction control will just kick in and you will be gone.

13. Brake earlier here then you think. It is so important to get on the power soon here rather then brake deep. This is a fairly long straight so it is important to get on the power soon.

14. This is a corner where it is so important to get on the power soon! You need to brake earlier here again to try and get on the power soon because it is what is important. You can’t get on the exit curb at all, it is so bumpy!