How to Beat the Consistency Problem Without Making Karting Boring!

Use Robot Runs and Discovery Runs and combine them to make yourself fast AND consistent.

Welcome to a paid subscriber only edition of Terence Dove on Racing Drivers. This week I’m answering another subscriber question - on the consistency problem! I expand more in the voiceover, so have a listen 👆

You can have your cake and eat it after all!!

Here’s what you will learn this week:

1. How to take a disciplined approach to being consistent WITHOUT ruining your fun.

2. How to use your desire to let loose and just drive to your advantage, WITHOUT ruining your consistency.

3. How to put it all together, so you can have your cake and eat it!

Consistency - It's a topic prompted by a question from a karting dad about his 11-year-old son. He can bang out some stunning split times. However, he's struggling to stitch these together consistently.

So his Alfano is showing a theoretical best lap based on two or three splits that's a half-second faster than the actual best.

When this is deduced from a limited number of splits, say two or three, it signals a lack of consistency. A driver hitting such splits in a seemingly haphazard manner can, theoretically, secure pole position times. Yet, the actual laps aren't reflecting this potential.

How do we convert these fleeting moments of brilliance into a regular occurrence on the track?

The solution I propose is straightforward and applicable to all drivers, not just an 11-year-old.

Now, the typical response to inconsistency is to preach discipline. But when you're 11, and karting is your escape, the last thing you want is someone turning your passion into a chore. Driving is about freedom, the thrill of controlling your destiny on the track, away from the structured confines of everyday life. The moment someone says, "This is how it must be done, no exceptions," you might as well be back in a classroom, learning geography rather than racing.

But when you've got the raw speed to win, as this lad does, something needs to change.

It's about enhancing consistency and the joy of driving without snuffing out the passion that fuels racing in the first place!