I finished editing more of the video from our last race with AMEC. This video covers the first half of the race:

As you can see, it was a pretty fast track. I was hitting 85mph at the end of the front straight. I probably could have gone faster, but braking zones have a way of disappearing during a race so I decided to keep my braking zone liberal. Visibility was also a bit of an issue, and the last thing I wanted was to hit a car I didn’t see because the grip in that braking zone had disappeared over the previous lap. The fate were with me more than earlier in the day, which is always good.

Note that there are a variety of driving styles people used. Some cars were very sideways through every corner, others barely got any slip angle at all. I found in my Saturn that a little bit of slip angle helped the car to rotate and actually change direction, but too much scrubbed off too much speed. Far more important to being fast was knowing where to drive on the course. Traction in certain places gave a clear advantage over the line - I passed a lot of cars in the esses through the back straight because I went off line where there was more traction. In other places, like turn 1, carrying a good line let you get on the gas earlier. I was able to pass a number of cars this way, as you can see in the video.