Since it’s the season of giving, I hope you’ll give me the opportunity to reminisce. There’s something about Christmas that can’t help but take me back to being a kid, and that’s been going through my head over the past few days.Maybe my memories will take you back,...

Last weekend I competed in a ChampCar endurance race at VIR, driving a well-prepped Miata in an 8-hour race on Saturday, and then a 4-hour on Sunday. (It was supposed to be a 7-hour, but the weather had a different idea, with fog delaying the start by three hours)....

“I brake too early, then too late, causing either understeer or oversteer. How do I find the ideal? Gimme the silver bullet!” I’ve heard this many times, and again recently from a great driver. And I get it, why can’t there be some simple “Do this and everything will...

I’m going to share what I think is a different way to use your in-car video, and it has all to do with something that separates the best from the rest: pattern-matching.When you approach an intersection on the street and you think “I just knew that red car was going...

Many years ago, smack in the middle of a seminar I was doing talking about handling, setup tuning, and vehicle dynamics, I thought I needed to lighten up the mood in the room. As I started to explain something that I’d learned in a Physics class in school, I said,...

Here’s a dumb question: Have you ever known that you could improve something in your driving, but weren’t really able to identify it?I say that’s a dumb question because I’ve never met a driver who hasn’t had a moment (or many!) like this.That leads to the big...

Two of the most common questions that I’ve been asked through the years are:Those may not be the exact words that drivers use, but they’re close. They’re at the core of what so many drivers are challenged by. And there’s almost always a touch of frustration in their...

The apex was visible as I headed into Turn 5 and clipped past it, then everything went blank. The glare on the windscreen, a mix of pitted glass, fluids from other cars, and the nighttime lights from the Daytona International Speedway grandstands made going to full...

Just over a week ago, we—Sam Smith, Jeff Braun and I—released an episode of the It’s Not The Car podcast with an in-depth and opinionated recap of when a good ol’ boy named Cale went to Le Mans. It was really a treat to record, mostly because it was fun to go back in...

We humans are weird. Every one of us. There are no exceptions.Part of being weird is that we like certainty. Our brains don’t like to be empty (except, perhaps, in the case of a meditating Buddhist monk), so we fill them up with thoughts, ideas, and worries, even if...