Quote Originally Posted by COD View Post
Turn in later with wider line, is theoretically very good idea.
Try doing that on gravel, when all the loose gravel is on the outside of the corner, and you will either go off or loose a lot of time with wheelspin.
On tarmac it could work better, unless someone before you has cut and brought gravel and dirt to the outside, then the result is the same as on gravel.
It is actually the complete opposite. It has to do with how much or little sideways forces You want acting at Your cars/tires at certain points of a turn.
The Loeb-remedy for tarmac stages with dirt/low friction on the mid apex is to go in deeper, make more of the directional change earlier, and then straighten the line over the low friction area so to start acceleration earlier. This is when acceleration is wanted, and huge cuts prohibited.
The same goes for gravel and snow, just watch Ogier, Loeb, Mäkkinen, Mikkelsen (on the first 1,5 days of this years Rally Sweden were he drove brilliantly), and so on.

My point was that Warmbolds blogg entry was very interesting, but that one needs to be certain what is the driver, and what is the car.
If You have an older rallycar with no adjustments, You have to adjust your self to the car, and this ability is a lot more worth than being able to adjust the car to one self.
This is because You can run the car closer to the theoretically perfect setting, and because of tire wear, changes in grip levels etc, the stage will vary in many parameters.

Going up trough gokarts etc, whit a focus on making the kart perfect for the driver, is not how to become the next Loeb or Ogier or Mäkinen or Röhrl.