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Are you seriously passionate about all things driving?  Great. You’ve come to the right place. Driving Directions is an edutaining, weekly (sometimes more, sometimes less) email newsletter that is the perfect read for those who geek out on driving culture.

What’s in Driving Directions? I write about:

  • New skills and approaches to driving
  • Great stories and lessons from life at the track (like when I coached at Le Mans, a Michigan NASCAR race, and an AMA Flat Track motorcycle race all on one weekend)
  • Insights and opinions on various races and events
  • I bust a few myths and give you new ways to look at driving
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Speed Secrets: Playing with Nannies

I’m excited to share a story with you about driving in the rain at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps this past week.But first, some background. As we do each year, last week a friend and I took a group of drivers to Germany and Belgium — two days driving the Nürburgring...

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Driving Directions: New Title & Experimenting with Lines

UPDATE: You may have noticed that I’ve started calling this thing, this series of articles, these posts, this Substack… Driving Directions. Why? Because, what’s a Substack? When I launched my new SpeedSecrets.com website, my goal was to make using it and the resources...

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Speed Secrets: Finding the Limit at Mid-Ohio

Rolling out of pitlane at Mid-Ohio, lining up behind the pace car and thirty or so other cars in front of me, I’m warming the brakes and tires, preparing for the race start going green the second time by, getting used to the position of the pedals and steering wheel,...

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Speed Secrets: When Good Results in Bad

Trail braking is the act of easing off the brake pedal while turning into a corner; it’s the overlapping of braking and steering. That’s the what, but what is the why? Why should we, sometimes, trail brake? It’s this third point that makes the process of learning to...

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Speed Secrets: Itʻs Not a Matter of Playing Chicken

To the casual observer of racing, the fastest driver is the one who wins the game of chicken. In other words, the racer who can brake the latest for the corners. And whoever brakes first should go back to the barnyard. The casual observer is wrong. It’s not how late a...

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Racey Thoughts: Random Ramblings About F1

The following are my random thoughts and opinions, in no particular order, based on the past few Grand Prix races. But first, I need to be very clear about one thing: I really don’t like or dislike any driver on the grid more than any other. I’m driver-agnostic. Since...

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Driving Lessons: Be Like Dory

Some of the best things that have ever been said in motorsport have come during an interview, or out of the mouths of commentators. For example… Years ago, during the TV coverage of a NASCAR race, a pit reporter asked a driver who had just crashed out what happened....

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Speed Secrets: Energize Your Driving

Imagine you’re a car. Just for fun, let’s say you’re Cruz Ramirez, the anthropomorphic race car from the movie, Cars 3. Now, imagine you — Cruz, the car — heading down a long straightaway, approaching a slow-ish corner, one that needs a fair amount of braking and...

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Racey Thoughts: Random Ramblings About F1

The following are my random thoughts and opinions, in no particular order, based on the past few Grand Prix races. But first, I need to be very clear about one thing: I really don’t like or dislike any driver on the grid more than any other. I’m driver-agnostic. Since...

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Speed Secrets: Focus on What You Have

People tell me it rains a lot in the Pacific Northwest. I tell them there are a lot of sunny days, the air is fresh, and the scenery is second to none. This past April was one of the warmest and driest Aprils in history, and yet some people complained about the four...

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