Oulton Park: The Definitive Circuit Guide (inc. Onboard Footage)
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Driver61's Oulton Park circuit guide uses onboard footage to take an in-depth look at everything you need to be quick at this technical and fast UK circuit.
Pro-driver, Scott Mansell, analyses Oulton Park's 2.7-mile circuit examining racing lines, braking points, cambers and kerbs. See the full guide here: goo.gl/1YwJvV
If you want to learn more about driving on track, please take a look out our Driver's University for driving technique tutorials: bit.ly/d61University
Oulton Park starts with Old Hall, a medium-high speed right-hander with a tricky braking zone. You'll want to resist the urge to turn in too early, rather loading up steering angle gradually.
Next, the circuit heads downhill to the quick and cambered left of Cascades. Here you'll find a common trait for many corners at Oulton Park - more grip on the inside of the bend, thanks to the camber.
Cascades is followed by a straight that leads to the very quick and brave Island Bend. Possibly the most dangerous of all at Oulton, Island bend will require you to build up to your optimum speed lap-by-lap. Like Cascades, be sure not to run too wide here as you'll lose the benefit of the circuit's camber.
Momentarily after Island, the Shell Oils Corner follows. Late braking is required and once again the circuit gains camber, meaning you can carry lots of speed into the right-hand hairpin.
A short straight follows before the challenging Britten's chicane, the first of two at Oulton Park. Our circuit guide recommends being careful with the huge first kerb and carrying as much speed as possible through the second section of Britten's, as the exit is quite steeply uphill.
After a decent straight - where you should check your mirrors and temperatures - we have Oulton Park's second chicane, Hislops. Like Britten's before, you'll need to be careful with the large first kerb. The rest of the chicane is a compromise and your attention should be on the final exit out of Knickerbrook.
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Can you show a full speed lap with no pauses and a quick commentary at the beginning on the video?
Great videos. Can you please make a video about the psychological aspects of racing: NERVES: How to deal with nerves before an important race FOCUS: How to keep focus in long races and recover focus when you make mistakes FEAR: Do you ever experience any fear when racing?
Another thorough video. The way you use your shoulders to describe weight transfer and loading and unloading adds a visual element that really helps me and allows me to understand what you are saying with more than just the words. 👍
I have my first Sim-racing League race at Oulton park tonight and having watched this once and done laps it has been an amazing help in learning the track and knowing what I should and shouldn't be doing
Island bend flat - wow some cars have grip! Super review of the best track! Has made me aware of some features I have never recognised. Hopefully a few I can remember this weekend.
Thanks Scott, great videos, well put together and very easy to listen to. Off to Oulton Park for the first time in 2 weeks and my prep as ever is your videos and some time on Project Cars 2! Loads of progression since I bought my car 2 years ago and you've been a big help with that!
@1061shrink1061
6 жыл бұрын
Oddly having come to Project cars after spending time at oulton, its a remarkably faithful reproduction. What I would say is that project doesn't capture some of the nastier elevation changes, especially over deer leap, where being on line makes for quite a rough exit to the section.
I agree about shell oil, in a Caterham 420R, which can almost go flat out leading up to shell oil, you can brake super late and in almost one move you can come off brake, get on throttle and run straight into the hairpin with really quite a significant amount of speed. Far more than you'd imagine would be sensible, but the track carries you round and you can just feel the back end twitch as you exit the corner and get full power on again.
I'm goin to oulton park for my first time to watch some racing this Easter. Cant wait
@Driver61
6 жыл бұрын
Enjoy, it's a mega track. You can watch on the outside of Cascades, it's a cool place to see race cars!
Thanks for watching! Check out the Driver's Uni series including how to trail brake (bit.ly/2PypIMK) Find out your driver level by taking our scorecard test: bit.ly/2LmYNBA
Seriously fantastic Channel, love how in depth the information is. University Series reminds me of Ross Bentleys Speed Secrets too. Look forward to the 10hour vid on 'Nurburgring Nordshleife: The Definitive Circuit Guide' hehe. Keep up the vids and would love to see a similar vid on Cadwell soon.
Great video! Had a drive around Oulton Park this weekend (not racing). It was interesting following the pace / safety car and the line they took was very similar, i've picked up on so much that i felt whilst there!
@adambarrs92
3 жыл бұрын
My friend was probably there in a Pugeot 308 GTi, it's a great track
Very usefull video as i'm supposed to race in the uk soon. Thank you very much !
Great video, thanks for the info, very helpful 👍👍👍
Hey Mr. Mansell big fan of the page and learned a ton so extremely appreciative and was wondering if you could give any tips for handling the starting line mid-pack mayhem and how to pass and not rearend the guy infront while staying agressive? Thanks
thanks, i posted this on my new facebook page. Id do lessons but not in the budget but ty for your time and effort.
Great video, and very informative. Have been doing Oulton for a few years now and still nowhere near mastered it. This video will help for sure! Quick question though would you say the same principles on driving lines apply in a light, low powered (200hp) FWD car?
Hot damn, 45 minute circuit guide. Love it... Edit: By the way, can you recommend any literature about racing?
@Driver61
6 жыл бұрын
+Streamlines do you mean about technique? Check out our tutorials Https://driver61.com/uni
could you please review Magny Cours and Barcelona circuits? I'll be racing FR 2.0 both tracks this summer and having such great guides could help me a lot. thanks!
Starting the year with a once again very detailed video :D p.s. do these formula 3 cars have abs or it's only treshhold braking that can keep the tyres from locking in the braking zones?
The camber issue might explain the spins I had at Cascades and the understeering into the tyres at Druids. On the subject of Druids when I was first shown the line back in the late 70s we were told to take the first apex wide (maybe a car width or so off the apex) in order to cut in for the second and straighten the exit. This approach seems to have gone right out of fashion.
Great video, thank you very much! I have a question - what is the software you are using for your videos? I mean the scroll to rewind the video plus the touch pad? Thanks in advance
Low battery warning at 33:25 had me frantically trying to work out why my MacBook charger wasn't working!
Great video but sadly any historic car from single seater to a early sports car this has no meaning sadly!.... different braking/turn in points etc are so much more different ...great job but think about doing a video for the other racers :-)... Driver61 could become the tutorial for all . A thumbs up ;-)
Lap record 1'24.6 seconds, F3000,1995.... This has now been deleted and 1'28.9, 2011 proper F3 is lap record. This is an insult to Gareth Rees in f3000!
So not so defenetive guide!