Also dont forget to turn off traction control

 

It should depend more on the duration of the run rather than how many. Usually at these DE events, there is plenty of time between sessions and your brakes cool down. If you are getting brake fade that gets worse over the course of the day, you probably boiled your fluid in one of the sessions. Make sure you have semi-fresh DOT 4 brake fluid. I boiled my brake fluid at the track once, it is very very not fun.

In the beginner groups brake fade isn't usually too big of a deal, because there is usually plenty of traffic to slow you down, to let your car cool down.

Also, I would recommend leaving traction control on, at least for the first few sessions. At least until you are comfortable with spotting all the corner workers and are regularly looking in your mirrors for cars surrounding you. There's really alot going on the first time you get on track, and you have super tunnel vision. Leaving traction control on makes one less thing to worry about while you get used to the experience of driving on a track.

People really hate on the traction control, but I think it's misplaced. It really isn't that bad if you have decent throttle control. If you mess up and overspeed into a corner and are trying to scrub speed down to make the apex, it'll kill your speed nicely and tuck in your front. If you panic and lift where you shouldn't be lifting, you'll know and feel your tail step out then it will catch you. Really I think why people dislike the traction control is because they have a lead foot. If you just stomp on the gas corner exit, it will cut off the throttle pretty abruptly, and you will cry as you putt-putt out of the corner and watch everyone gain on you until you wind out your steering. HOWEVER, if you are CAREFUL with your throttle application, AND near the limit of your rear traction you can actually get the rear to step out and slightly power over before it cuts your power, and it really only gently cuts it to keep the car in line and only very briefly.

 

Personally, I would leave the traction control on if you're going to be at a SuperSpeedway... or at least start out that way. If you were doing autocross or something low-speed, sure... shut it off. But if the car starts to slip at speeds in excess of 110 MPH, I'd want all the help I can get to keep it on the track and out of the wall. I doubt any of us have ever been in a situation where we get to practice regaining control of a car at those speeds anyways, so even if we know how to drift and handle a little tail-wiggle at 40 or 50 MPH, it might be a bit different when it catches you by surprise at those higher speeds that you'll be hitting on a SuperSeedway.

 

Oh right, are you only doing a superspeedway or does it have an infield section? I was at autoclub speedway, and man, the oval section was sphincter-clenching scary. I kind of just threw away that corner and din't push it. Man, only doing the oval would be pretty intimidating. I never got close to the wall at any time either. just stayed in the bottom 2-3 lanes, hahaha.

And yeah, I would recommend the traction control. On the other hand, it's actually decently safe because of the huge bank. When you lose control you usually end up going downhill towards the middle. But yeah, saw tons of people overspeed going into turn 2 at like 130mph. Pretty scary seeing them understeer into the next lane out, then lifting, then getting oversteer. Luckily no one spun out, but saw a few people get loose in the rear. I think the bank helps correct the oversteer because your butt has to go uphill. But yeah, that can't be fun.

What I also noticed is that on that nice constant radius banked turn, people tended to carry a high speed into it, then scrub speed all the way to the next straight after corner exit. Made no sense to me, but I think it's because it is pretty scary. You pull some pretty high g's at high speed on that bank. But once you actually hit the turn in, and see that you didn't overspeed and your car can make the apex, you can get back on the throttle (carefully).