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wstar

Another fun weekend at TWS! Saturday morning's first session was a little damp, but the rest of the day was pretty dry and fast. Sunday was a wet mess dodging puddles in the falling rain - I only did one session and then packed up since it was looking like the weather was going to get much worse in the afternoon. My front rotor rings are surprisingly in about the same shape they started in, so I may push for another trackday or two on them before replacing them.

The RS-3 tires were better than expected (from internet hearsay) in the wet. They're not a fast tire in the wet; they're slow and don't handle standing water all that well even with good tread depth. But they were easy to predict, control, and recover on in the wet, as opposed to the sometimes-twitchy nature of my old Contis. The slow wet laps were fun instead of death-grip-scary

Not a ton else to report, it was fairly uneventful. I didn't do anything stupid, and I shockingly failed to spin the car or throw it off the track. I had a couple of near-misses on those things, but I'm adapted to the RS3's now and doing much better at control/recovery. My braking was sub-par and I did a lot of silly steering-wheel-shaking that I need to stop doing, but I don't care much. Mostly this weekend was playing with driving looser and becoming comfortable with a new level of car control and lots of small corrections, and it was pretty successful. I know where a lot of my suboptimal lines and speeds are at now, and I think I can correct them next time. Maybe next time at TWS I'll really try to optimize the whole picture in one smooth run and put down some really decent lap times.

Anyways, my fast-lap vid for the weekend:



And a highlights/errors vid (a nice traffic management clip, an almost-off in T1, a slippy situation in T4 in the dry that I pulled through without losing speed, and then several wet slip+recover moments):

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