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Originally Posted by Keefe  This threads a bit ridiculous, how everybody becomes an expert race analysist everytime someone messes up. It happens. Pretty frequently too if you've ever spent time within a racing season either as part of a team or participating in races yourself.
You simply cannot take the perfect line every single time, you just can't. Especially when you're around halfway through and your tyres go off and are seriously the worse things you'll ever drive on, no matter how good they're supposed to be.
Its clear that Norris isn't the worlds greatest driver, but then again he hasn't been at it that long iirc. I know he's been building monster evos forever but the driving part, especially circuit is relatively new isn't it? So yeah there's a lot of things he could of done differently when you've got the luxury of hindsight but its a completely different story when you're sat in the car at the time. You can't say what he was doing was wrong because you can't feel what that car's doing through your arse like he could. |
Precisley what I was getting at in my post at the beginning, people can't compare an amatuer race to F1, they are worlds apart. Getting the line right everytime is what seperates a pro from a novice/ amatuer/ clubman racer.
When I look back at my own on board footage I see my mistakes, of which there are far too many
but I learnt from them and I try to focus on not making them again. My mates on the other hand watch it and are quick to point them out and tell me how it happened, desipite having never driven a race car in their lives.
I would make a slightly off topic comment about the time attack/ performance saloon race phenomenon. A racing driver, clubman or otherwise, learns to race in a balanced, purpose built, low power, low or no technology race car. It teaches a driver to be smooth and precise as there are no trick diffs or suspension and little power, to pull it back on line when a mistake is made. When looking at this example and others I have seen, it makes me think that the drivers are way out of their depth trying to wrestle a 600+bhp monster around a track. If, in this case, the driver had spend a few years racing a one make class formula car, Vee, Ford, Caterham etc, he'd have built up a driving style and awareness to harness the power of that Evo.
Just my two cents.