Not sure what to take away from this round, except you don't turn into an alien overnight!
In Tuesday's extensive practice with Hristo coaching, I did a new pb, with an unorthodox change to my setup, of a tall 1st gear to use at Tosa. Hristo developed my setup (without the tall 1st), and while his definitely felt better, I couldn't match or better my pb, no matter how hard I tried. I have seen Hristo stress the importance of getting the power down as early as possible, and that's what I have been trying to do in my own way.
After seeing me drive, his suggestion was to turn in later, but sharper, to set the car up for early power-on. Sounds simple enough, but actually doing it was a different matter. I may have wanted the car to snap into the corners more sharply, but it had other ideas. It would understeer, causing me to run wide, or I would have to slow down so much to make the sharp turn, that it apparently negated the early power-on. Hristo's advice was to rotate the car more, but how to do that? Not something I had any succes with. Tried and tried and tried after he left, but no success; I remained far from my own earlier pb. Then finally tried going back to my own setup and drive like before, to see if that would make me match that pb. It wouldn't however, so I could neither drive the 'new' way, nor the 'old' way..
Hoped sleeping on it would help, but problems continued Wednesday. Had to decide what setup to use in race, so did some laps with each. Was quicker with my own, but still nowhere near that pb from Tuesday. After much hair pulling I went with my own, although the tall 1st would hurt at the start.
Race was a meh experience. All six cars ahead soon disappeared, until a dust plume at Tosa indicated a temporary place might be up for grabs. Passed Daz extricating himself, only to spin myself the same place a few laps later. Not once in a 100 laps on Tuesday did I spin that way, but in the race....yep
That let Daz past again, only for him to repeat the mistake again later. Had hoped for a better fight once he caught up, but in reality he just went past on the last lap.
Grats to DD, Hristo & Manfred for the win & podiums.
So what to conclude? Too late to teach an old dog new tricks? The 914 too much of a razor to try and learn this stuff in? Too high expectations too soon? A process that will need much more time? More skills to be mastered?
Clive, the blur effect you mention, is it on both near and far away objects?