ケニー・ロバーツ自身は次のように語っています(Techniques of Motor Cycle Road Racing by Kenny Roberts, Hazleton 1988)。
To sort the bike during practice you should pick out the most important corners, usually the fast ones leading into fast sections, where your speed is going to be most vital. I didn't work on low gear corners at all. I don't waste my time there because it makes so little difference to lap times. The effort is better spent on the fast corners.
The main thing is to get the corners that are going to make the biggest difference to lap times down pat. You can go around the other corners as hard as you like, with everything dragging on the ground, and you will not even pick up a tenth in lap time. But go through a set of fast esses just right, at 100 percent, and you will pick up half a second.
要するに
〇低速コーナーより高速コーナー、特に高速セクションに繋がる高速コーナーがラップタイムを短縮する上で重要
〇低速コーナーを攻めても0.1秒も稼げない。高速Sを攻めれば0.5秒稼げる
ということです。
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