tpellegr
Go Kart Champion
- Location
- Boston, MA
- Car(s)
- 2016 GTI S 6MT
Trying to put my off into the wall yesterday into perspective and was rereading some Ross Bentley that made me feel a bit better about it. After all, it’s a learning process and to develop your driving skills at the limit, you need to sometimes driver over that limit. Yesterday was a wake up that I still have a long way to go in developing the skills needed to be fast around a track.
Have you had offs, crashes, or “oh sh*t” moments? Would love to hear about them and what you think of this concept.
“You know that sometimes when you overdrive, you don’t get away with it. Again, that’s okay. It’s part of being fast and part of being a winner. With experience, though, the results of overdriving will be fewer and fewer offs, spins, and crashes. The results may be running a little wide, a bit of a lock-up, or a half-spin-and-go, but that’s okay too. In other words, you will get even better at controlling an “overdriving off-line experience” (a “moment”), to the point where it will seem to others that you don’t make mistakes. Sure, you’re still making mistakes, but they are so small that they are hard to notice. This concept of overdrive, underdrive, over, under . . . averaging out to being at the limit is critical. In the beginning the difference between over and under is quite large. With experience, the difference becomes quite small. Some drivers see the overdriving part as being “wrong” or unnecessary. If that’s you, you need to recalibrate your impression of the model. In other words, you need to spend just a little more time overdriving the car than you currently do. You need to raise the average.”
-Ross Bentley
Have you had offs, crashes, or “oh sh*t” moments? Would love to hear about them and what you think of this concept.
“You know that sometimes when you overdrive, you don’t get away with it. Again, that’s okay. It’s part of being fast and part of being a winner. With experience, though, the results of overdriving will be fewer and fewer offs, spins, and crashes. The results may be running a little wide, a bit of a lock-up, or a half-spin-and-go, but that’s okay too. In other words, you will get even better at controlling an “overdriving off-line experience” (a “moment”), to the point where it will seem to others that you don’t make mistakes. Sure, you’re still making mistakes, but they are so small that they are hard to notice. This concept of overdrive, underdrive, over, under . . . averaging out to being at the limit is critical. In the beginning the difference between over and under is quite large. With experience, the difference becomes quite small. Some drivers see the overdriving part as being “wrong” or unnecessary. If that’s you, you need to recalibrate your impression of the model. In other words, you need to spend just a little more time overdriving the car than you currently do. You need to raise the average.”
-Ross Bentley