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Red Bull Racing RB7: Step by Step
DRIVING YOUR RB7 –
PART TWO
WHEN YOU HAVE BECOME FAMILIAR WITH THE ACCELERATION, BRAKING AND STEERING
RESPONSES OF YOUR RB7, YOU CAN MOVE ON TO MORE CHALLENGING MANOEUVRES.
IN PARTICULAR, YOU SHOULD PRACTISE YOUR CORNERING TECHNIQUE.
Your first practice course (see Pack 23) was an oval that
you drove around clockwise, making right-hand turns,
and anticlockwise, making left-hand turns. When you are
sufficiently confident with that, you can move on to driving
a figure-of-eight course (see diagram on the right), making
alternate right-hand and left-hand turns. The relatively long
diagonals of the figure-of-eight will also give you more
practice in accelerating and braking than you got on the
oval course. However, remember that the engine of your
car will still be running on one of its first three tankfuls, so it
is still at the running-in stage – don't give it full throttle yet!
READJUSTING THE STEERING
The figure-of-eight will also give you more practice in
steering the car when it is travelling towards you (see page
473, Pack 23). You will soon be able to focus not just on
going quickly along the straights but also on the bends, so
as to negotiate them as quickly as possible. The first step
is to readjust the steering angle. By turning the STEERING
DUAL RATE knob on your remote control transmitter
slightly clockwise (see the photograph on page 487), you
will increase the angle through which your model's front
wheels will turn, and this will allow you to take the corners
closer to the cones.
Going around the cones in a figure-of-eight pattern enables
you to practise both right and left turns.
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