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Speed Secrets: How To Make The Most Out Of A Test Day – Part 3
Over the past two articles, I provided some overall strategy and key messages to keep in mind for your test day, as well as some that were specifically aimed at driver development. This week, we’ll look at car development.
Speed Secrets: How To Make The Most Out Of A Test Day – Part 2
Here’s an analogy I often use: If football teams practiced the way most race drivers practice, they would show up to a practice session and play a game. But they don’t do that. Instead, they break the game down into discrete skills and practice them with drills – blocking, passing, running, kicking. Only once in a while do they put all of them together to play a scrimmage (and even then, it’s usually just parts of the game). But what most drivers do is go on the track and practice the whole thing, as if they were playing an entire game.
Free eBook: How to Learn a Track… Fast!
Ross Bentley, author of the bestselling book Ultimate Speed Secrets: The Complete Guide to High-Performance and Race Driving, is giving away a free eBook called “How to Learn a Track… Fast!” Just in time to get you mentally prepared for the 2018 race season, the free eBook goes over key techniques and the process to help you learn a track and get up to speed faster:
Speed Secrets: How To Make The Most Out Of A Test Day – Part 1
Okay, you finally have a test day where you’re able to focus just on tuning your car’s handling and your own driving, instead of having the pressure of an event’s practice, qualifying, and race. Yes! But how do you make the most it?
Speed Secrets: How to Improve – Part 4
In this final article of this series, it’s time for a little reality check. If you could do just one thing better this upcoming season as a driver, what would it be?
WRR Academy: Everyone Needs More Coaching
In a recent podcast with Ross Bentley, I was asked what one piece of advice I would give drivers. Of course, there is no single answer, because drivers are different.
Speed Secrets: How to Get Lucky
I suspect most people in racing have at one time, heard the saying, “You make your own luck.” I wonder how many of those people, though, understand what that really means. I’ve heard racing people define the saying with the qualifier that it’s preparation that leads to good luck. I agree completely.
Speed Secrets: Hey Look! There’s Nothing!
As human beings, we hate to look at nothing. We love to look at something. Anything. Even some things we don’t want to look at, right? Have you ever been faced with something disgusting or ugly, but you looked at it anyway?
Speed Secrets: Handling Debrief Process
Whether you have a team of engineers working on your car, or you discuss its handling problems while looking in a mirror each and every time you come off the track, you should consider what setup changes you could make to your car.
Speed Secrets: Getting Up to Speed Quickly
Some drivers seem to get up to speed within a lap or two, while others seem to take forever. It’s like they need lap after lap to get into the rhythm before they start turning quick times.
Speed Secrets: Different Cars, Different Techniques
The higher a car’s polar moment of inertia, the earlier and more gently you need to turn in. There’s a phrase that should get you thinking!
Speed Secrets: Corner Entry Speed
Corner exit speed is critical, right? It’s all about who can begin accelerating out of the turns first – that’s who’s going to win, right? But, wait a minute. Corner entry speed is almost as important.
Speed Secrets: Competition Versus Performance
By the very definition of the word “competitor,” we compete against others. However, if your focus is on competing, you lessen your chances of performing well. When you focus on your performance, you increase your chances of performing well, and therefore, of winning. Ironic, isn’t it?
Speed Secrets: The “Change of Speed” Problem
One of the most common errors I see drivers make is what I call the Change of Speed Problem.
Speed Secrets: Be a More Sensitive Driver
Let’s talk about what I call “Sensory Input Sessions.” The reason for these sessions are to improve the quality, and increase the quantity of the sensory information from your vision, feel (kinesthetic) and hearing (auditory) going into your brain.
Speed Secrets: Advice for the Older Driver
We’ve all heard the stories about Paul Newman not starting racing until he was 47 years old, and Juan Manuel Fangio winning five World Championships while in his forties. But these seem to be exceptions to the rule in a sport where youth is the norm – at least in professional racing.
Speed Secrets: 3 Ways to Drive Faster – Part 2
Let’s take an in-depth look at tires and how they affect your driving, beginning with a review of slip angles.
Speed Secrets: 3 Ways to Drive Faster – Part 1
In the past, I’ve looked at what you as a driver can do to shave a little off your best lap time. Now, let’s take a look at three specific plans (there are dozens) to go faster.
How To Win The Race Start
Before a race, think about where you’re starting on the grid. Who is starting around you and what are they like to race with? Can you trust them to run wheel-to-wheel with you? Are they fast starters? Do they run a few fast laps, then begin to fade?
Speed Secrets: Brakes Make You Faster
Brakes can slow you down. Well, duh! But they can also make you faster. It’s all about the timing and rate of release of the brakes.
Speed Secrets: Tuning Your Car for the Rain
We all love driving in the rain, right? Well, some of us. But even those of you who are like me (I love it!), we’d prefer to drive a car in the rain that was well set up for the rain! In other words, driving a poorly- handling car in the rain is not so much fun.
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