QUOTE(gsomersjr @ Dec 11 2012, 03:42 PM)
Congratulations on your first event! Sounds like you completed the main objective for your first time....bringing it home in one piece. Summit was where I raced my 914 with SCCA. You can brake much much later and carry more speed into the corners but creep up on it. Don't try to get it all in one weekend. Try not to track behind a smoking car...they can spin you before you know what's happening. A few tips I picked up at Summit...stay tight on the start, this is where you will gain most of your positions for the whole race...don't lift going down the chute or you could visit the drivers left tire wall, backwards....a lot of drivers don't like to pass in 5 so if you see a chance, take it, they'll let you have it but run like hell so they can't get you back going up 8....10 is where all your lap time comes from. You have to go through here fast because you're entering a 3000' straight. It should scare you a little bit. If you've got a car you can't get around lay off him a bit and get a run on him through 10. You should pass him between start and 1. Also when you go through 8 aim your car to track center under the bridge. You can't see the entry for 10 until you crest tthe hill but this will take you straight to it. A good reference point for turn-in at 3 is the access road. It feels too late but you get used to it. Enjoy!
Thanks for the advice. After having many DE's at Summit main, although not with this 914/6, but a stock one instead, I've learned some of the suggestions you mentioned. I've stopped tapping the brake before turn 4 and now maintain/accelerate going through the chute. Took a little bit to get used to this (a lot of DE instructors suggest tapping the brake here), but once you get it, it's amazing how fast you close on cars coming into 5. The carousel through turn 1 is my favorite part of the track. When the car is running well, I believe I will "make up some lost time" there. Braking late into turn one is also great for the teeners as it's amazing how many cars we can outbrake! This whole vintage racing experience is such a rush.