Yes, it is.

And loose is fast. Just because you picked up times going from too lose to understeering doesnt mean you couldnt have picked up even more if you'd have been on the edge of adhesion instead of over the limit.

 

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Kris...

You must not understand how a FWD car works. Finishing your braking when you start you turn in is called trail braking and it must be done to be fast. Straight line braking is the way to be safe. If you are having the front end wash out in a FWD car you are asking too much of your front tires. Your steering input is too great for the speed you are trying to carry. When that happens a light lift off the gas and opening the steering will correct it unless you have totally blown it to start. Back to trail braking and getting the car to rotate... It is not something that feels natural it goes against everything we learn driving on the streets. It is also not something that you will pick up the first few times autox'n car. What is rotation? The point when the rear of the car just start to slide you need to start pushing on the gas and opening the steering. That is the only way to get around the corner fast. Its a fine line between making the corner and looping the car. If you are spinning the car you have not learned this yet. Your comment that loose is not fast shows that. I will bet that you get into any one of the fast guys cars in our area (and we do have guys who are fast at even the National level) you will most likely spin their car. Why because you have to have a car set up loose (able to rotate) to be fast. And if you have not picked this up yet you will spin the car.

And as far as you gaining 2 seconds by slowing down thats great because you were overdriving the car in the first place. Learning that will allow a driver to then start picking up the pace by compressing their braking even more, making less un-needed steering inputs and eventually lean trail braking.

Keep having fun....