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<blockquote data-quote="MFE" data-source="post: 14423107" data-attributes="member: 36397"><p>You seem to be doing a good job of looking well ahead of the car, but you're overdriving it. My best driving coach once told me "sometimes you have to slow down to go faster". He was dead right.</p><p></p><p>1) Keep your right hand off the shifter. You can't do fine adjustments of the steering with your left hand at the top of the wheel and your right hand on the shifter where it's not needed for anything but the first 60 feet of the course.</p><p>2) Modulate the brake and the throttle. They're not all-or-nothing on/off switches. Treat them like dimmer switches. </p><p>3) Pick a throttle setting and stick with it through slaloms and slalom-like sections. Every time you mash the gas and lift off the gas, you're shifting load and traction from back to front to back to front to back to front...the car doesn't like it and will slow you down. Be smooth. </p><p></p><p>As RideTechJosh said, smooth is fast. The very fastest guys may not <em>look</em> smooth, but they've gotten to a point of being able to quickly enter their inputs for what amounts to a smooth output at the tires, and that's what matters. But it takes a lot of experience to get there, and the best way to do it is to start by smoothing out your inputs until you learn the feel of dancing the car on the edge. Then you learn to do what you need to do to keep the dance going. And part of that starts with looking even further ahead of the car than you probably already are. Like I said, you seem to be doing a decent job of this...but even further. </p><p></p><p></p><p>.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MFE, post: 14423107, member: 36397"] You seem to be doing a good job of looking well ahead of the car, but you're overdriving it. My best driving coach once told me "sometimes you have to slow down to go faster". He was dead right. 1) Keep your right hand off the shifter. You can't do fine adjustments of the steering with your left hand at the top of the wheel and your right hand on the shifter where it's not needed for anything but the first 60 feet of the course. 2) Modulate the brake and the throttle. They're not all-or-nothing on/off switches. Treat them like dimmer switches. 3) Pick a throttle setting and stick with it through slaloms and slalom-like sections. Every time you mash the gas and lift off the gas, you're shifting load and traction from back to front to back to front to back to front...the car doesn't like it and will slow you down. Be smooth. As RideTechJosh said, smooth is fast. The very fastest guys may not [i]look[/i] smooth, but they've gotten to a point of being able to quickly enter their inputs for what amounts to a smooth output at the tires, and that's what matters. But it takes a lot of experience to get there, and the best way to do it is to start by smoothing out your inputs until you learn the feel of dancing the car on the edge. Then you learn to do what you need to do to keep the dance going. And part of that starts with looking even further ahead of the car than you probably already are. Like I said, you seem to be doing a decent job of this...but even further. . [/QUOTE]
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