Other than a few sections, that's pretty much what you do. You're either gaining RPMs as fast as you can, or dropping them as fast as you can. If you're trying to save fuel, you might be a bit less aggressive, but you're normally stomping on one pedal or the other.
Now, there are times where this isn't true - like when you're going through some s-curves and it's faster to maintain a higher average speed through the whole set of curves, but it's normally faster to mash the shit out of either pedal. The circuit at Le Mans is pretty much one of those tracks where you're constantly trying to go as fast as you can.
When the driver was going through something like S curves he just went through generally with no foot on the gas or brakes, kind of coasting through
Yup. Sometimes it's faster to get all your speed possible and then coast through sections - it's also sometimes a smart fuel strategy.
It's pretty fucking brutal inside a race car. This circuit has a good long straight (that used to be much longer, until they intentionally added a curve - called a chicane - to it) where the driver can kinda relax for a bit, but it's otherwise really fucking brutal inside one of these cars.
Some 'endurance' races only last like an hour which folks think is like driving their car fast for an hour. It's nothing like driving your car fast for an hour. Add to that, it's well into triple digit temperatures inside. That hour is split by two people and it's still endurance racing. It beats you up pretty bad.
That beat you up part of the experience was not relayed to the viewer as well as the rest of the information I was enjoying
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