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Why It Is Important To Prioritize Corners

Yellow and black racecar taking a corner on a racetrack.

Racing Corners and Why They Should be a Priority In order to get the fastest lap time, you need to figure out what racing corners are more important than others. This is especially true if one corner directly leads into another corner. The SCCA Runoffs were held last fall at Virginia International Raceway (VIR) and […]

Using Corner Radius Information To Go Faster

Speed is in mph and lateral acceleration is in g’s. Multiplying the speed (mph) by 1.46667 gets the speed in ft/s and multiplying the lateral g’s by 32.17405 gets the g forces in ft/s2. The radius of the corner then ends up being in ft. It is amazing how accurate this formula can be. In Exhibit 1 I used Google Earth to look at turn one at VIR and I drew a circle that has a radius of 122 ft.