Lewis Hamilton knows that a race car is far too quick to drive
at the conscious level. You must engage all your senses and
pre-program responses. Get to understand your car inside and
out. It is possible to do this from taking information in through all
your senses. True there is no substitute for perfect driving practice.
But how do you enhance that perfect driving practice? Increase
your awareness of how you take in information while driving.
Next time you’re out on track practice this:
Step 1:
Drive two laps just paying attention to your auditory sense…
what do you notice? Listen to the engine, the gear change, the revs.
Step 2:
After completing those two laps, stop the car and make notes
about your experience, get all the information from that sense.
Step 3:
Then drive 2 laps just paying attention to your visual sense, picking
the cues and markers, collecting information from the track, just
through the sense of sight.
Step 4:
After completing those two laps, stop the car and make notes about
your experience, get all the information from that sense
Step 5:
Drive two laps just paying attention to the feel of the car, feel the
acceleration and braking points, noticing everything to do with
your kinaesthetic sense.
Step 6:
Again: After completing those two laps, stop the car and make
notes about your experience, get all the information from that sense.
Most drivers just drive around using all their senses for each lap,
but when you break it down, deconstruct this experience and then
reconstruct it, your experience of driving that same track is greatly
different, more powerful and enhanced. It’s about becoming
aware and engaging all of these areas to decrease reaction
times and improve lap times.
Have questions?
Contact me: robin (at) f1driverssecrets (dot) com
Keep Racing!
Robin
http://www.f1driverssecrets.com
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