But we all know that an early turn-in does not result in a late apex, right? Not necessarily. And that’s where my Big Aha! Moment came in.
Why should you drive like a little kid? Ross Bentley writes about how little kids don’t judge themselves… until we judge them.
Spend enough time driving on a race track, and you are likely to either experience brake fade, or you already have.
Here’s a new Speed Secrets: how to come to grips with a new car or track? You drive the car, not the track.
Flow triggers the release of dopamine in the brain, as do certain drugs. So, driving flow is more than like a drug, it is a drug!
These Speed Secrets certainly apply to rain-soaked trails and race tracks, but also on dry tracks – stay tuned for a dry trails article.
He still drove too far from the wall. I was confused, since these driving lessons had worked so often in the past. Then I had an idea…
When I competed against other race car drivers, I didn’t like many of them, but as I got to know them, I had a big Aha! moment: they’re human.
As the Formula One teams and drivers head into their summer break, there’s a lot of talk and rumors about Sergio Perez’s future with Red Bull.
The power of visual focus: What happens in the mind doesn’t just stay in the mind. Try this (and I really do mean it… do this):
There are many factors to consider when finding and selecting a driver coach, so this is not as simple a question as it seems!
Am I the only one who compares shift points exiting every turn I face more than once, whether I’m on a racetrack or an urban intersection?
At the end of a day at the track, how do you measure success? Is it lap times, result of a qualifying session or race?
Real-world drivers sense the car’s limit more by the car’s yaw angle than by what they feel in the steering wheel.
Ross Bentley from Speed Secrets will be conducting a webinar that is so in-depth that he has to call it a masterclass.
For a little over a year now, Ross Bentley from Speed Secrets been helping sim racers with my Sim Racer Academy membership program.
“What do the best drivers do?” Jeff has worked with them; Colin has co-driven with them, raced against them, and is one of them.
“I don’t really know what an apex is, or why it matters to me.” And this was from an instructor! Just as he was saying this, another instructor walked up, nodded, and said, “Yeah, same here.”
While the “I can just hit Reset” mindset can lead to risky driving behavior, this can be flipped around and turned into a positive.
Often, what’s hardest is admitting to what happened, what caused it, and how it should be dealt with.
The thing is, in order to average the fastest speed over the greatest distance (the literal definition of a fast lap time) you must know precisely the right areas of the track in which to be “slow” in order to go the quickest overall.