Mazda MX-5 Cup at Lime Rock Park
7 corners on the Grand Prix layout, ranked for this car. Pick one, and say what the car's doing.
• marks the corners that decide the lap.
The answer above is complete, but all four controls need JavaScript. Instead: the lap guide has every corner here, and Mazda MX-5 Cup lists this car everywhere else.
- 01Open the wheel and wait for it⅛ turntechnique
Mid-corner push is a front tyre being asked for more angle than it has grip for. Less angle is more grip, and the car comes back to you.
Requires trusting the car for about half a second. That is the hard part.
- 02Use the full width on entry1 car widthtechnique
A wider entry makes the corner's radius larger, which is the only way to ask less of a front tyre without going slower.
Needs the room to be there. Check your mirrors first.
- 03Hold one steady input1 inputtechnique
Sawing at the wheel through a corner never lets the front tyre settle at a slip angle, so it spends the whole corner somewhere below its best.
None. A quiet wheel is faster almost everywhere.
- 04Slow the entry, wait for the car5 km/htechnique
Overdriving the entry saturates the front tyre into understeer you cannot unwind before the exit.
None — costs nothing to test.
- 05Softer front anti-roll bar1 clickbar
Lets the front axle roll and build slip angle, adding front grip as the car takes its set.
Fixed-setup car — nothing in the garage is adjustable.
- 06Lower front tyre pressure0.5 psityre
Bigger front contact patch. Verify against carcass temps rather than guessing.
Fixed-setup car — nothing in the garage is adjustable.
- 07Stiffer rear anti-roll bar1 clickbar
Takes rear grip away to shift balance toward rotation.
Fixed-setup car — nothing in the garage is adjustable.
- 08More front negative camber0.1°geo
Keeps the loaded front tyre flat at full roll. Only helps if the outer shoulder is running hot.
Fixed-setup car — nothing in the garage is adjustable.
- 09More rake — raise the rear1–2 mmaero
Shifts aero balance forward. Only meaningful where there's real speed.
Fixed-setup car — nothing in the garage is adjustable.
- 10Softer front springsone stepspring
Front grip, plus a lower nose under load which adds a little front downforce as a bonus.
Fixed-setup car — nothing in the garage is adjustable.
Where the corners fall
Sequence and speed, left to right. Not a scale map. The lap guide takes each corner in turn.