Today’s Tip – Self Timing

Sit with your eyes closed and visualise a lap around a circuit. Do it in real time and visualise every gear shift, turn in, apex and exit. As you start the lap in your head set a stopwatch running and stop it when you finish the lap. Compare the time you took to your real laptime around the circuit.

Being faster, slower or the same time will tell you alot about how your brain is processing the information it receives on a lap. Contact us to book a coaching session to help fine tune your mental discipline.

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Today’s Tip – Mind Games

Racing is a mental game, so much of your performance and potential relies on the right mind set. Its easy to psych yourself out by focussing on the wrong things.

Its important, before your race or qualifying, to not get too wound up. Find something to ground you, to keep you a bit more relaxed. That might be telling jokes with your crew or listening to a particular piece of music, something which allows you to be focused but not over-anxious.

Today’s Tip – Warming the Tyres

If you are racing on slicks, or some of the latest generation track day tyres, warming your tyres on the way to the grid is essential to give you grip and ‘bite’ on lap 1.

Avoid weaving too much, especially if you are starting with very low tyre pressures, as you can risk rolling the tyre off the rim. Instead heavy acceleration and braking works both the surface of the tyre and starts to build core temperature, and hence pressure, as well.

Today’s Tip – What you lookin’ at?

Whenever a client is struggling with setting a decent lap time or is making lots of small mistakes the first thing I look at is vision. Are they looking in the right place at the right time?

Fixing your vision fixes around 90% of problems on track.

Simulator Progress

The shell and structure of the new building to house the Learn To Race simulator is coming along.

In 2019 we will be offering track familiarisation sessions at a variety of tracks from all corners of the globe along with driver coaching sessions.

Contact us to find out more and to book a session.

Today’s Tip – Corner Speed

Interesting video from Safe Is Fast with a few drivers explaining their way of getting into, and out of, a corner. You will hear the word ‘rotation’ alot as this is key: getting the car into the corner and using the pitch under braking to move the grip forwards to allow you to rotate the car so you can get cleanly on the power on the exit.

You will also notice some slight variations in emphasis each driver gives to different parts of the corner. This shows the individual style of the driver and where they are strongest so best able to maximise their corner.

https://youtu.be/RXZ44VdhdVs

Today’s Tip – Night Racing

Lap times will usually drop off when racing in the dark. This has a few scientific factors such as track and air temperature changes but the biggest drop is usually down to the driver going slower.

Remember, the track isn’t any different in the dark, the corners are still in the same place so make sure you know the track better than the inside of your own pockets so you loose the least amount of time possible.