Letting off early at the stripe to gage your braking and where the turns offs are is a good idea. Wish someone would have told me to do that... My first time down the a track
was an 11.25 run at 124mph - with drum brakes all around.. Scared the crap out of me watching two turn offs go by without being able to pull into them. Good thing it was at a sanctioned track that had three turn offs..