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Dylan Rudd: 5 Keys to Success at Belle Isle

Dylan Rudd is a driver on the improve and with a string of strong performances he is proving to be one of the drivers to watch. Round 9, the penultimate round, takes us to the streets of Michigan at Belle Isle where he tells us the five most important things to get a good result.

Using the track

Bell Isle being somewhat the concrete canyon of iracing there is not a lot of room for error. Running the car as close as possible to the walls to open up the corner entry and exits. Overstep the mark and you can find yourself in the wall.

Tyre life

With there being lots of slow speed corners good drive traction and side bite is crucial. set the car up to aggressive and you could find yourself battling to keep the car of the walls.

Strategy

There will be a variety of different strategies on race day but Gaining track position over the competition after the final pit stop will be key for getting a good result at the end of the race.

Traffic

Managing traffic from lapped cars, incidents and lap 1 chaos, will be one to be very mindful of as it could end your race very quickly if caught up in them. car placement is crucial because there is no runoff only concrete walls either side which will make it tricky to navigate through any sorts of traffic.

Qualifying

0x's and cars on slow outlaps will be things to watch out for in qualifying. Setting a banker lap early will make sure you have a time on the board at the end of qualifying and not left with no time from being borked from other cars and getting 0x's from making mistakes and pushing too hard at the end of qualifying

Dylan Rudd: 5 Keys to Success at Belle Isle

Published on

13 November 2022

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