Our bike actually has a disadvantage on corner exits. The others have a larger tyre with more compound options and can get a lot more drive out of corners than I can.
Would you believe even Ripperton has a larger and softer compound tyre than we ran all year providing him with more grip and faster corner exits. both bikes actually pull away from me out of a corner no matter what I do, power means nothing if it's not able to be used, it's why I take a slightly different line to maximise the amount of drive I can get out of the corners. It simply will not put power down as well at lean due to tyre (and setup which is getting better). It's the next thing we will work on. You are also correct the bikes are geared for the tracks to maximise the drive out of corners, we beat them on takeoff and top speed but I find I have no or very little acceleration advantage over Varley between about 100-200kph where we spend most of the time on track.
Last year we were dismal under braking and mid corner speed, it's what we focused on this year, if you watch the live stream especially into the downhill hairpin (t8) I can brake even with Jason now and feel I can match or better his mid corner speed, in the last lap he ran wide trying to keep up. Rippertons lighter bike is still faster here though.
Would you believe even Ripperton has a larger and softer compound tyre than we ran all year providing him with more grip and faster corner exits. both bikes actually pull away from me out of a corner no matter what I do, power means nothing if it's not able to be used, it's why I take a slightly different line to maximise the amount of drive I can get out of the corners. It simply will not put power down as well at lean due to tyre (and setup which is getting better). It's the next thing we will work on. You are also correct the bikes are geared for the tracks to maximise the drive out of corners, we beat them on takeoff and top speed but I find I have no or very little acceleration advantage over Varley between about 100-200kph where we spend most of the time on track.
Last year we were dismal under braking and mid corner speed, it's what we focused on this year, if you watch the live stream especially into the downhill hairpin (t8) I can brake even with Jason now and feel I can match or better his mid corner speed, in the last lap he ran wide trying to keep up. Rippertons lighter bike is still faster here though.