Subject: Re: Moonday Chat 4-9-12 by BillH on 2012/4/9 14:12:52
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biggrizzly wrote: I was thinking about Bill a whole lot and wished he was there showing me some ropes. Although I'm not sure he likes the cone type driving events. We got well over 24 runs, many with instructors and many solo. We also got to have National SCCA Champions and long time competative instructors drive our cars with us in them to see how it "can" be done. I tell you, being a passenger in a car be driven by one of those guys is incredible. When they say go fast in the fast parts and slow in the slow parts they aren't kidding. Way more agressive than I am. I'm talking 50MPH up to the pivot cone, brake, off brake, turn, unwind and gas!!!
Nope, I don't like cones (personally), and I don't like the 50 seconds of seat time, 20 minutes is about my minimum.
But then, I don't necessarily like HPDE's either. I've never entered a car in one and while driving a new recetrack for a few laps is very interesting and fun, driving a track I've been on without competition doesn't do much for me.
Instruction is the only real way to see how to do it right. So many drivers at HPDE's are out there doing things wrong, they keep driving the wrong line over and over (while they're having fun in their car, they're not improving).
I usually drive a student's car a couple laps at 70% to shou them the correct lines, how & when to use the brakes,etc. And show them a "faster" lap if they want.
I won't be instructing the street car drivers as much this year (kinda too bad because it's enjoyable)because I'm developing a program to work some HPDE drivers that want to get their competition licenses. There's a big difference between high performance driving and race craft but at least these cars will have full cages and 6 point harnesses.
