Originally Posted by CivicSiRacer
Ummm no do yourself a big favor and at the next event go get an instructor to help you. 8 seconds is an eternity and a sway bar is not going to help for 8 seconds. Maybe 1 second the most.
Did you walk the course? When you walk the course you should get a sense of where the course goes the 1st walk. 2nd walk start to memorize apex points. 3rd walk look where you need to brake. 4th walk try to put them all together. If you need more walks then so be it.
You should be able to stand at the start line and close your eyes to visually know where each corner, braking point and apex are. Force youself to stick to those lines when you drive your car.
Also definitely get an instructor to ride with you to give you pointers. And even have them drive the car for you to see what your time would be compared to his.
It's hard to get 3 walks in, I just managed to do it did it last time, but it really helped. Our courses are pretty long. My seat doesn't move so I unless the instructor is really tall like me he can't drive it. I had the novice chief ride with me last time, he actually didn't tell me too much, but maybe I'll find someone else next time. I had a pretty good feel for the course from walking I think, I didn't get lost at all in the morning, but I think I was definently fastest the 3rd run in the morning because I had the best feel for it then althougth I still wasn't 100% sure all the time of what to do next which naturally makes you slower. Any other tips? Maybe I can get a 30 second video next time of me driving, that's all my digi cam takes.