My ONLY advice to fix this is brake EARLIER! Feldynn's fix of dropping a gear to get the turn in should have given it away... He dropped a gear to assist in slowing down, keeping weight on the front tires.
That's sort of the thing Fried, I wasn't so much dropping a gear to assist in slowing down (at least not on purpose ) but more because it seemed to affect the rotation of the car. I could slow down and take a corner in 3rd gear at lower revs but the car would feel a bit pushy, if I dropped down to 2nd gear with high revs but at the same speed (give or take a couple of MPH) it went from a little pushing at the front to a little shoving from the back and made the car rotate that much easier.
That's kind of what got me guessing it might be something in my LSD setting, so the torque at higher RPM in the lower gear simply made the car turn better at mostly the same speed with the setup I had?
You may not have been using it to slow down, but it was slowing you down. I do the exact same thing you described, to save my ass from a blown corner. Drop a gear to rotate the car, (caused by engine braking) then immediately go back up to the proper gear and continue on. Only problem is, speed is scrubbed and time is lost through each shift leading to an overall slower speed at the end of the straight. For comparison, I was running a 12/31/9 LSD.
Good advice Brindle.
What's everybody's approach to the tight S chicane before the right hander that leads to the banked oval section? Initially I was trying to late apex the first corner by going wide left and then arcing it along the right side of the first turn so that I had the most space for the left hander. But this seemed slow. So what I started doing was keeping left still but then trail braking into the first corner (braking late and turning at the same time) to get to the same point on the right side of turn 1 quicker. This caused me a few spins when the tires were getting worn. But in general, I felt a bit faster doing this. I would try to get my right tires on the rumble strip on the backside of the first turn and begin rolling on the power through the left hand turn opening onto the short straight.
If there's a better way to do this, please let me know. Seemed like some of you were way faster in this section that I was.
In my opinion, this is a multi compromise corner. First, you have the right idea of car position, but don't forget about the distance traveled running an outside line. Trail braking IS a must everywhere at this track, but especially for the T1 of the esses. The whole esses setup begins for me at the entrance to the left hander before the esses. Coming off the left, I would only aim to go 3/4 towards the outside before T1 of the esses. Late apex entry, but you only aim to hit the center (not full right) of the track before T2 of the esses (shorter way around). T2 is almost a normal apex, as you are already half way there. Careful with the gas for exit of T2 you are shifting weight from one side to another pretty quickly here, so the car should naturally turn to loose for exit, so prepare for it (egg on the pedal).