Regarding my spin on the left-handed carousel on Sunday's race, here is the telemetry showing what a difference a couple of extra MPH's can cause when going into a turn.
I initially braked the same as I did on my personal FTD lap (reference lap), but instead of letting the car scrub off some more speed as I went deeper into the turn, you can see that I gave a little throttle in an attempt to try to catch Norm and JP, who were a good 20+ seconds ahead.
You can see that in the "Throttle Pos" trace, just to the left of the vertical cursor. This resulted in 5.15 MPH faster speed through the first apex, at the cursor mark.
Well that certainly didn't work, and the result can be seen in the map at the top of the picture. That ultimately cost me P3 as I had to let Ian by while re-entering the track.