Tips, opinions, stories & whatever else I like to share with you about high-performance & race driving, sim racing, coaching, recent motorsport events & stories from the road. Oh, and the lessons I’ve learned from six decades in & around motorsport.
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Driving Ms. Elan: How My Lotus is Trying to Make Me a Better Person
Some oily lessons.
Here’s the text message I sent a friend the other day (and just to be clear, this friend has many of the same “issues” that I have, including an affinity for Lotus Elans—or, at least, that’s what he tells me):
Racey Thoughts: Random Observations From a 12-Hour Race
Last weekend, I raced in the ChampCar 12-hour event at Sebring in a Porsche Boxster. Throughout the event, and since, I’ve thought a lot about the state of amateur racing in North America, and specifically the impact that “budget endurance...
Driving Lessons: It’s Q&A Time
I’m flipping things around this week.
Just over a week ago, Sam Smith and I recorded a live episode of our It’s Not The Car podcast. It was under the big top tent at the Rally Sport Region PCA event at Grattan Raceway, and it was basically...
Speed Secrets: Looking for Speed in All the Wrong Places
Observations from two track events.
In the past ten days, I’ve interacted with nearly two hundred drivers, from those who were at their first track event to ex-pro racers out for a fun weekend. I have to say that these types of events, whe...
Speed Secrets: Does the Cornering Line Really Matter?
What I’ve learned over the past 46 years.
I began instructing drivers on the track way back in 1980. Forty-six years of instructing will change how you think about almost everything.
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