Hi Stu,
It's each to their own when it comes to driving style. Recent experience is that those coming from TC tend to brake more than those that come from other classes. Your style is fairly common and as you saw, fast!
Don't sweat it too much. Try not to think about what you are doing and keep the car speed up and tight to the corners. The minute you start thinking about what you are doing and try to adjust it, you'll slow down. Get the muscle memory into your brain by nailing the style you like at a slightly slower speed that gives you time to react. After a while, increase the speed and you'll find you can drive fast without consciously thinking about what your doing - like breathing really!
Once you've nailed your style, now set the car up to maximise the corner speed. Set up is personal so don't be psyched out by someone else's set up. Blindly following another set up usually leads to a dead end. If you find someone who drives like you do, then there's a sense in working together on set ups. Try to know what things do to the car, and then harness that to your style. Copying set ups blindly is a mugs game.
Great to see you are enjoying the class so much - keep up the good work!
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