Thx H thats a point I haven t given much thought really and I m sure it s true. I sometimes try to drive other tracks with the same setup or just something completely different when I feel I have come into a vicous circle trying to do the same track faster and faster and I just do more and more mistakes without improving.That might be related somehow to what you say but still not the same. Now I m off to see those laps of yours ..
I know exactly what you mean and I think it's the same thing. For instance, when I was trying to beat the 65 Nurb BT7 WR, I did about an hour of running and had to stop because I started doing more and more errors, getting frustrated and not really improving. I ended up 3 secs slower than the WR and didn't really think I could do it.
After 24 hours I had another go and this time it went better, as if the practice from the day before had given fruits - I was just a second off the WR and I started to believe it's possible. Again though, I had to stop because mistakes started creeping in and lap times deteriorated.
On the 3rd day I was struggling initially and kept doing mistakes, and thought I'm trying too much too soon, so I stopped after 2-3 attempts. A couple of hours later though, I managed 2 laps under the WR and that was it.
I remember back a few years ago when I was hotlapping for my Lotus Nurburgring time, I took a 2-3 weeks break from it and when I came back it was a PB on my very first attempt.
Similar thing with Brno here, though it was more about figuring out where I can improve and it was usually little things like braking points, gearing and lines, but still needed 3 days to put it all together and it still took a fair number of attempts, but once it clicked it worked well.
I guess the more experience you have with it, the quicker you recognize where and how to improve your lap time, or learn a (new) track in more detail. Nothing is guaranteed though, as we saw in Pebble Beach.
P.S. Thanks, Bernie! As much as I do it for showing off
I also hope it can help others to get ideas that may help them out. I think the key was really not going too sideways and trying to put the power down as smoothly as possible. With the abundance of torque this Fezza has, it was a joy to drive the car like that rather than push beyond the limit to compensate as I usually have to do with the weaker cars. It just felt more normal, lol. BTW, very stiff setup seems to work well here because you can run rather low and still avoid (excessive) bottoming. Makes it a bit tricky in the slow bits though, very slippery there and easy to overdo it.