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It also means you’re very slow to full throttle, which could lose you up to half a second on the run down to Turn Four.

If you decrease speed too much on entry you end up picking up the throttle too early and this leads to bad mid-to-exit understeer in most cars. You need to trail brake a long way in to keep the weight on the nose at the mid-corner rotation point. Turn Two is a reasonably simple double apex, but it can become tricky in the second half of the corner if you over-slow the car on entry. Section two: Double the apexes Turn Two (Southern Loop)Īfter exiting Turn One you really only get back to the middle of the track before you need to brake for Southern Loop. Unfortunately, I did lose a bit of time on that lap!” I looked up in the rear-view mirror and there’s feathers going everywhere. I had a helmet on, but I’m pretty sure I did shut my eyes. Unfortunately, we can’t say the same for our feathered friend. Luckily for him, and MOTOR’s potential insurance claim, the rake of the windscreen saved the day. I thought it was going to shatter the windscreen,” Luffy recalls. I got it smack bang in the middle of the windscreen at about 260km/h. “Many years ago I hit a seagull at the end of the front straight. However, as our resident gun driver, Warren Luff, found out during MOTOR performance testing, approaching the first braking marker at full velocity in a Lamborghini Gallardo can be daunting for other reasons – wildlife. It’s easy to get caught up in the moment before you tip it in to Turn One – and hang on. As you crest the rise past the start/finish line it feels as though you’re about to fall off the end of mainland Australia. Charging down Gardner straight, tickling the redline in a high gear and seeing the vast blue horizon that is Bass Straight rush towards you.

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