Gas pedal work to increase overall vehicle speed.

If the car is driven at a higher overall speed, the time will be faster, but it is easy to under accelerate, especially in the case of the 911 RSR.

If the accelerator is not pressed after the car is properly turned, understeer will occur immediately. On the other hand, if the car slows down too much, it will slow down, which is not good.
Therefore.When you can accelerate and roll along without slowing down too much or accelerating too much.The speed of the car increases because it does not slow down too much.

Gas pedals and brakes are not 0 or 100.

The gas pedal or brake pedal is the "not equal to zero or one hundredI often hear that "the According to Mr. Sugawara.

I would imagine that the accelerator should be stepped on in at least 5 steps, "0, 25, 50, 75, and 100", and the brake in "0, 50, and 100". If you step on the accelerator at full throttle, it is easy to understeer, so be aware of the accelerator that rolls away. It is important to have the sense of stepping on the gas pedal at a point where the understeer is not at the edge.
Depending on the corner, it is important to be conscious of slowing down the vehicle speed while stepping on the brake halfway, while stepping on the brake gently. If you step on the brake too hard all at once, the vehicle speed will drop too much, so it is important to be conscious of braking gradually on corners where there is no need to slow down that much.

Take a breath when coming out of a corner.

He said it is important to take a breath when exiting a corner, rather than accelerating in a hurry to accelerate faster.

If you rush to accelerate when coming out of a corner, you will understeer and twist the steering wheel. Therefore, you should accelerate after turning a corner, after the car has properly turned around, and after a pause for breath.If you can wait for a breath there, you can get up to speed at once.

I see!

To confirm and reproduce the best run

Let's make the time!" and not just driving with a mindless "I'm going to make time!Now that didn't work.He said that it is important to work on finding the best driving style, making small corrections on the next lap.

It is important not to run frantically, but rather to let your body imbibe the best running style for you and see if you can reproduce it over and over again. In order to do so, you need to make subtle adjustments to your driving each time you drive, while maintaining a certain degree of composure and calmness. I used to try too hard and jump out of the car at the first corner and retry again and again... I couldn't even complete a proper lap, so I think it is a good idea not to try too hard and not to be too desperate (laughs).

Mr. Sugawara is now a champion, but he has made such steady efforts.

GTSport, in depth

My husband's best time in Suzuka, the first time he drove his 911RSR, was 2'05.150, but when he drove after receiving advice from Mr. Sugawara, it was 2'03.518, and he was almost within reach of the 2 second mark. It's amazing how a little bit of advice from an amazing athlete can shorten your time by 2 seconds.

By the way, Mr. Sugawara, while chatting with us, said, "I'll try to run properly for a bit," and ran, and his time was 1 minute and 58 seconds.

Huh!

It's amazing how fast I can run this fast with so much room to spare. I wonder what would have happened if we had them drive seriously. Incidentally, we also had them run at Fuji Speedway and Nürburgring North Course, and they were unbelievably fast!(The Nürburgring North Course was 5 minutes and 30 seconds in a Porsche 962)

Up until now, my husband has been "I'm starting to think that the fastest people are running on different machines.I had heard that he was a great player, but after watching Mr. Sugawara run this time, I realized that this was not the case (laugh).

A player who is so solid and great as a person that it's hard to believe he's only 22 years old.It was.

By the way, I also had Rico run the race. Rico-san has also been practicing GTSport under the tutelage of Mr. Sugawara, and his times are faster than my husband's, but this time he was unable to show off his skills due to the mismatching of the hankons... Let's definitely compete against each other next time (laughs)!

Thank you very much, Mr. Sugawara and Rico Otsuka!