If there was one important piece of information to take away from this training session is that every chicane has it's own subtleties. Understanding these will improve your chicane speed. Is the chicane a widening chicane where you can get on the throttle as early as the first apex or a tight chicane where creating the best opportunity for a fast mid chicane and exit speed will be the main challenge.

To smooth out the chicane as much as possible as a good understand of the track limits and the characteristics of the kerbs will be crucial. Just as you learned in the "hitting the apex" session, test the kerbs for how they react to your car. Aggressive use of the first kerb and barely touch the second kerb might be the best choice for one particular chicane whereas the next chicane has a lethal first kerb which needs to be avoided.

Approach your chicane as you would a standard corner. Plan to brake hard and slow the car down to the appropriate speed as quickly as possible. It is important not to coast during the mid-chicane section. Even on a tight chicane there might still be room to apply a short burst of acceleration. Try to picture a near straight line between the apex of the first half of the chicane and the second. If the car is having to aggressively steer at this stage your missing an opportunity to lower your lap times. Try not to coast in this part of the chicane.

Braking late and overshooting the chicane entry is very costly and lap times will suffer. Many chicanes were designed to significantly reduce the cars speed, these puts enough more pressure on getting a good exit as a lightning quick exit will give the driver plenty of chance to overtake on the following straight.

It is all too common to wait for the second half of the chicane before applying the throttle. Drive the aggressively, take every opportunity to keep speed in the car and avoid coasting whether possible.

If you brake late or not hard enough you'll create for yourself a very poor racing line. You'll be fighting your car instead of working on an optimal line through the chicane. Notice how the yellow drivers line is way off the racing line and needs more steering to navigate the chicane.

A slow exit speed can be due to a couple of different reasons. Remember to use the full width of the track and plan your chicane with the exit at your forefront of your mind at all times.