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Originally Posted by Christian1LE
Yeah dunno, I got no other way to explain it. I've had the exact same feeling before in turn 3. Both turn 11 and turn 3 are the only places on the track where I start hitting the brakes with steering input on the wheel. All the other corners at slower speeds while on the brakes, begin with braking in a straight line for a good amount of time. Could be something else but I don't know what it would be. It's something i'll keep in the back of my mind. I've been to VIR now 7 times and I've only felt it twice, one of those times going off track. So it's certainly not something very common.
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I've done about 10 days at VIR and have not yet experienced your problem, including turns 3 and 11. But I can also say I'm not trying to milk every foot by taking the acceleration zone as deep as possible into those two corners and abruptly slamming on the brakes. I get on the brakes smoothly without stabbing and am always aiming to limit pedal travel to be at threshold braking without invoking the ABS. My plan to learn the transition point had been to press hard enough to invoke ABS, then back off enough to make it turn off. Oddly enough, I have trouble detecting when the ABS is active, as it seems much harder to feel the pulsation in the pedal in the 1LE, which is a stark contrast to all the grocery getter vehicles I've owned previously. In the relatively rare instances where ABS does activate, it seems to be while I'm trail braking (at least that's what the PDR data says - I can't feel it in the pedal), though I'm not sure what trips it.
If you are sometimes stabbing at the brake pedal while on track, then I'd suggest you try the suggested fix earlier in this thread for avoiding "ice mode" and smoothly, progressively "squeeze" on the brake instead.