This is a selection of posts on how you’re supposed to drive. This is slightly different from how your supposed to race, which is under the Racing topic. If you want to know how you’re not supposed to drive or race, see Sucking.
- A Crash Course in Advanced Driving – my recipe to become an elite driver
- Driving Progression – the natural progression from novice to professional
- Video: Thunderhill West – I make the best video of how to drive the best track
- Ghosting the Aliens – telemetry analysis 101: data, braking bad, driving harder, advanced techniques, fast is fast
- Four reasons you may be stuck at the low intermediate plateau – lots of people get this far because it’s not as much fun after
- Rotation Q&A – what the heck is rotation anyway?
- Why is rotation important? – here’s why it matters so much
- This sine qua non of high performance driving – the 2 most important things
- In slow, out fast, and other lies of the racetrack: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6
- Offseason Training: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6
- Big Lies: part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6
- Intermediate Topic: training wheels, brake pressure, gear choice, downshift timing
- What’s wrong with heel-toe? – read and find out
- Teaching mid-track exit – I don’t believe it’s a good idea to teach novices the racing line
- Just 1 mph faster – what difference does 1 mph make?
- When it’s not about the 10ths – when it’s not tenths of a second, but 10 whole seconds, the problem is you
- Braking broken down – braking is the single most important skill to master
- Skid Pad Day! – I take some UCD students to a skid pad and have a great time
- Top up or down? – I test if a convertible is faster with the top up or down
- Backing up the corner – it’s how fast drivers get it done
- Dropping 20 seconds in a day – not me, a good student
- Coaching Report (-ish) – I do some sim coaching
- Chalk Talk: the nadir, figure 8
- Fear is holding you back – mastering your fear is a difficult part of the game
- An Identical Twin Study of Car Racing – guest post from my twin
- Rev-thrashin and Rev-mashing – heel-toe is the topic
- It’s raining lies: part 1, part 2, part 3
- Skill – measuring your skill
- Impromptu Coaching – just a random coaching gig
- Turning Play into Work – training thoughts
- Virtual Rally Training – rally racing is good for non-rally driving
- Telemetry: trail-braking – I explain what it is and what it looks like
- Oversteer overanalyzed – tuning, hands & feet, weight transfer & brake bias
- De-synchronizing – timing matters
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