A key to improving your driving is how you approach your practice time – whether you’re a performance driver, race driver, club racer, HPDE student, track day driver, or HPDE instructor. In this Speed Secrets Quick Tip, I talk about taking a strategic approach to practice, to maximize your learning opportunity.
Being fast is important to winning races, but not as important as your racecraft. Being strong on starts, passing, and even knowing how to minimize what you lose when being passed is as much about your mindset as it is any technique, and that’s what I talk about in this Speed Secrets Quick Tip.
Many drivers use visualization to learn new tracks and practice driving techniques, but few use the process as effectively as they could. In this Speed Secrets Quick Tip I explain how to get the most from it, in a way that will make you a faster performance or race driver.
Everyone (including me) will tell you “Smooth is fast.” But why? Understanding why will make you a faster driver, whether you’re a race driver, track day driver, just starting out, or an old pro, as I explain in this Speed Secrets Quick Tip.
Eliminating mistakes shouldn’t be your focus. Learning from them should be. Feeling the pressure of not making a mistake actually increases your chance of making more, as I talk about in this Speed Secrets Quick Tip. It’s a big part of the mental game of performance driving, race driving, and HPDE.
Early apexes are always bad, right? Not really. In this video I talk about two different drivers who turn the same lap time, and yet one turns in and apexes earlier than the other (in fact, this driver was slightly faster). Where you apex, and get back to power is all in how you rotate the car on the entry of the turn, and that’s what I’m talking about here.