OK, back to corner types. We spent a lot of time on Type I corners because they're the most important on the track. Not only that, but perhaps even more significantly: if you take every corner on the street as if it were a Type I, you will probably never crash in a corner or even get close to a dangerous situation. And you'll exit every corner quickly, and blow away every single average street rider in the twisties, no matter what bikes you all are riding.
The next most important corner on the track is the Type II, a corner that ends a straight. The object is to stay on the gas as long as possible and carry as much speed into the corner as you can.
This means we turn in gently and relatively early, braking right before the turn-in, and brake almost all the way through to the apex. The apex is slightly early.
From the apex, we then act as a normal corner exit, unwinding the radius, straightening the bike up, and rolling on the gas. The exit speed of a Type II corner line is lower than that of a Type I, but since we aren't entering a straight, that doesn't matter.
So what makes this different from a Sleazeball?
The difference is that the Sleazeball is still braking and tightening up the corner after the apex, and has the majority of the turning still to go.
A Type II line starts unwinding the corner at the apex, accelerating and straightening up as the bike approaches the track-out point. Since you're accelerating and unwinding the corner, all the avoidance and mistake correction capabilities are still there.
From TrackDoD Novice Group Orientation
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