Nice driving DavidM. I imagine that you could cut a quicker time by oversteering around a couple of the cones - namely 1,2 & 4. But this would required very good car control to ballance the car's attitude with the accelarator pedal. Driving around the cones without spinning the rear around looks a little time consuming, but I could be wrong. Although the Z has so much torque at low revs, that breaking traction at the rear sound not be too hard - controling it there after is the hard bit.
BTW, the Z and MX5 sounded nicest.

 

Thanks KY350.

I imagine that you could cut a quicker time by oversteering around a couple of the cones - namely 1,2 & 4.

You are correct, being more agressive with the throttle would have made me qucker. It was my 1st run of the day so I was being a bit tentative and trying to feel out the grip levels there. The way the MX5 was doing it in the clip was with a hand-brake on turn-in, and then with power on exit. I'm not very good with the hand-brake, so power is all that I'm comfortable using.

Driving around the cones without spinning the rear around looks a little time consuming, but I could be wrong.

You are correct. Though, most time-consuming thing you can do there is go in too deep or fast or/and get understeer. The surface is relatively low-grip and once you get into understeer situation then you can only slow down or carry the understeer through and loose a lot of time. Poweing on while understeering will just generate more understeer (and that goes for any car there incuding the S2000 even with it's superb front-end grip).

Generally speaking the quickest way around is to spend the least amount of time going around the cone (or course). For that, the right about of balance between speed, oversteer and depth of the arc is required. Alother thing required is traction so that you can power out once you're on the other side of the cone.

This particualar run was too tentative and needed more power to get the most of it. It was about 3 - 4secs of the top MX5's pace so there was still a lot of pace to be gained as generally I could match them on speed onless there were too many 270deg turns (and in exercise #1 there werer not many). I found that I could cut about 3 - 5secs on each 'exercise' by having a couple more goes and being more agressive with the throttle (ie. the run from later in the day that was posted initially).