been racing for about two seasons now and ive hit kind of a wall with my lap times. everything feels decent on the longer sweeping sections but every time i come through the chicane on our local track i either scrub way too much speed braking into it or i exit sloppy and lose like half a second recovering. watched some of my DVR back and i can see im not carrying the apex right but fixing it in practice is a different story.

running a 5 inch on 45 degree deadband, rates are fairly aggressive, like 850 on pitch and roll with 0.65 expo. not sure if its a rates issue or just muscle memory that needs more time. my throttle graph looks like a mess through that section compared to the smoother parts of the track. anyone been through this and figured out what actually helped beyond just flying more

throttle management through chicanes is genuinely one of the harder things to dial in and DVR only tells you so much. what helped me was slowing everything way down in a sim first ? like literally flying the chicane section at 60% throttle max just to train the muscle memory of the line without worrying about speed. sounds boring but after a week of that i stopped death-gripping the throttle in the real section.

also your expo might be fighting you a little. 0.65 is pretty high, means your stick has a lot of dead center feel and then it kind of snaps ? some people find that makes fine corrections harder in tight technical sections. worth trying 0.55 and seeing if it feels more linear through the middle.

honestly sometimes its not the rates or the line its just that your entry speed is wrong and everything downstream suffers. if you're braking into the chicane you're already behind. the fast guys are usually setting up waaay earlier than it looks like on their DVR, they're already thinking about the exit before they even hit the entry gate. easier said than done i know but try focusing just on where you start your approach, not the apex itself.