Track Learning Mind Hack that Turns a Deficiency into a Super Power
Track Learning Mind Hack that Turns a Deficiency into a Super Power
You can learn a track that you've never been to, better than the locals - before you even get there!
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My struggle with track learning and how I overcame it (accidentally)
If you're like me, you probably struggle with remembering track layouts and the little tricks that make a corner work.
You may think that the only way to learn a new track is to do loads of laps and hope that something sticks. But that's a very slow and inefficient way of learning. And it can cost you a lot of time and money.
But you don't have to settle for the slow and costly way of learning a new track:
You can learn a new track before you even get there, with more detail and precision than anyone else.
You can show up at the track with a clear and confident plan of how to drive it faster and more consistently than the locals heroes.
It cost nothing.
How? Well, it's actually very effective method that I discovered by accident. And it's based on a simple principle some Roman dude came up with 2000 years ago.
Let me explain how it works.
The secret to learning any track in record time
A lot of my advantages with coaching come from the fact that I was really awful at quite a lot of things that are important in racing. So, my experience in coaching has been to fix a lot of things that I wish someone had been able to show me when I was racing.
One of the things I was terrible at, and I didn't really have a clue about, was that I was very poor at remembering track layouts and being able to go into fine detail. Because I just didn't bother learning it. I was very, and still am, very lazy.
I just wasn't able to map out a track in my mind quickly. I could go around a track for 100 laps and pay so little attention that I wouldn't be able to distinguish one corner from another. I was just happily driving fast….ish.
Obviously, that is a severe limiting factor to being competitive. I just expected to do more laps and learn it a bit better every lap. It was such a slow process, it was ridiculous. And it cost me a lot.
But, when I started coaching drivers I couldn’t just blag it, I had to come up with a really robust way of learning tracks. And when drivers use this method, it's mega.
How I accidentally learned tracks better than ones I have won races at
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