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"ROOKIE MISTAKE: Every instructor has told me that I overdrive the car in slow corners, going too fast at the wrong time. All the books say that slowing down is the key to going faster. That&amp;#039;s great, but how do you know when? PRO FIX: Here, and it really depends on the corner, is the old saying: slow in, fast out. And obviously, &amp;quot;slow in&amp;quot; is a relative term. You don&amp;#039;t want to be babying it into the corner. How do you know if you&amp;#039;re braking too early? Just look for the freight train of cars passing you down the inside. If you&amp;#039;re able to brake without wasting time coasting or going past your turn-in point, you&amp;#039;ve found your happy medium. But finding it will involve experimentation. Spend a session braking way too early to start, then move that braking point deeper by five-foot increments. Keep doing it until you miss your turn-in, note that point, and back it up until you can hit that apex and get back to the throttle in one smooth process. It&amp;#039;s the Goldilocks procedure. Experiment with too hot, then too cool, and eventually you&amp;#039;ll get it just right. Here are a few &amp;quot;if&amp;quot; scenarios to work through:  If you find yourself coasting after braking and waiting to get back to power, you can brake deeper. If you&amp;#039;re barely able to get the car stopped before it&amp;#039;s time to turn, brake sooner. If the corner is followed by a long straight, you&amp;#039;re going to gain a lot more time by getting a solid exit and carrying that speed down the straightaway than by waiting that extra 10 feet to brake, missing the apex by half a car-width, and being late to power. If you have a car that&amp;#039;s understeering, you&amp;#039;re going to need to back up the braking and turn-in point so you aren&amp;#039;t washing out into the weeds on corner exit.  Likewise, if it&amp;#039;s too loose going in, exiting sideways from a corner will look great but won&amp;#039;t be fast. Slow the car into the corner and wait for power until you&amp;#039;re pointed straight. Leave the Fast &amp;amp;amp; Furious stuff to Vin Diesel.   Have a technique question for a pro racer? Send it to us at RMPF@roadandtrack.com.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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