As it happens so often, a racing driver knows he’s cooked when his tires smoke from a braking error.

@rikka@ani.social

But it really makes sense to set up your car for the part of the course with the trickiest turns.

Speed on straights is pretty much pre-determined by whatever platform you’re driving, and assuming all is otherwise equal, the most time to be lost is in cornering errors, or even slightly less-than-optimal cornering, on tight curves.