The Racing Line at Snetterton - 300 Circuit

Snetterton recently updated its layout, and operates the 300, 200, and 100 Circuits, with the 300 and 200 being most popular. The 300 Circuit is a long track with many turns and relatively few landmarks, so be sure to study the videos thoroughly before heading out to your first track event. That way you can focus on learning how to drive/ride the track, rather than memorizing the turns.

Turn 1, aka Riches, is a fast right-hander with two visual apexes. Motorcycles should hit both apexes, but some vehicles, like the Miata or Radical SR3s, SR6s, etc. are better off driving wide of the second apex. The next turn, Montreal, is a tight hairpin that vehicles with decent power should take with somewhat of a double apex - but Miatas can stick it all the way around. Al misses the second apex slightly on the Motorcycle, but that's an error in the optimization that costs a couple hundredths.

Proceding down the short straight leads to Palmer, a sweeper with somewhat of a late apex. Following that is Agostini, the second hairpin, with much the same advice as Montreal - unless you're underpowered, take it with a bit of a double apex. Motorcycles can go out about 10 feet before pointing back in toward the exit. This allows for braking deeper into the corner, and a good drive out of it.

Everybody stays together through Hamilton, which requires an early apex, then enters into Oggies slightly off the left curb. For motorcycles, the calculated optimal line clips both apexes, but it's hard to find examples of riders actually doing this. The other vehicles exit wide.

After connecting to Williams, relax on Bentley Straight until Brundle, where underpowered and high downforce vehicles will hug the left hand side before entering Nelson. The Motorcycle and GT3 RS drive straight from the apex at 8 to the apex at 9. The lines all stay together through Bomb Hole, which leads us to Coram. For the most part, everyone sticks to the inside all the way around except the Motorcycle. If you look at the Motorcycle line for the 200 Circuit, however, you see that the optimal path is close to the inside with everyone else. This indicates that for the Motorcycle both approaches are valid and should be within a tenth or less of each other, to be utilized depending on the situation. In fact, if you look at the superbike footage below, you'll see that the riders prefer the wide entry, perhaps because it allows for the most settled entry into Murrays and best drive out onto the lengthy front straight.