Steer With Your Feet, Brake With Your Hands?
When you’re driving right at the limit, you steer the car as much with your feet as you do with the steering wheel. At the same time, the steering wheel becomes a brake.
Storytime: When Dreams Come True
It’s taken a while. A few decades, to be exact. It almost kinda happened in 1987 through 1990, but not really, fully like my dream. Still, it was pretty darn good. The problem was I wasn’t ready for it.In 1987, my friend Andrew Field and I started a high-performance...
Striving For Perfection In Your Track Driving
There is a very fine line between being a perfectionist, and constantly working towards improving. Perfectionists are so focused on doing everything just right that they often lose sight of what can be learned from making small errors. In driving, they’re so caught up in driving the perfect line through a turn that they drive too slow.
Target Fixation – Explained
Remember, your hands – and steering – follow your eyes. If you look at something, you’re likely going to steer towards it. That’s target fixation.
The 100% Tire Rule for Performance & Race Drivers – Speed Secrets Quick Tip
Managing your tires – their traction, that is – is what driving at the limit in performance and race driving is all about. In this Speed Secrets Quick Tip I talk about how to use 100% of their traction, no more, no less.