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Your visualization of how you control the race car helps you get “in the zone”

Early on in my own racing, I didn’t know anything about visualization as a tool in improving driver performance. I used to wonder, “How come I can’t remember much about my race after the event? I only remember odd stuff here and there. I’m concentrating like crazy. Or am I, if I don’t remember that much?”

But once I understood about visualization and the idea of “flow” (driving in the zone), it all started to make sense.

Flow is where all the tasks of driving the car are handled subconsciously. You can do it without any conscious effort.

Paul Gerrard, Professional Racing Driver and Author of “Optimum Drive” says, “Car control is the foundational skill. As long as you are still driving, you should be improving your car control, taking it to higher and higher and more granular levels. Your car control skill set is a primary enabler of flow.”

Of course all driver’s flow to some extent. It would be impossible to think top of mind every action you take in controlling the car.

It’s about embedding the control processes into your subconscious. Muscle memory is important. But also particularly, the mental imagery you have at your disposal.

If you are motivated to perform at a high level, all it takes is to visualise what it looks and feels like when achieving your goal, and the mind will seek to make it happen.

Your mental model of how you think the race car works is key here. In a way, your mind can deal with a situation where your mental model is not up to scratch, but it’s also highly likely that the correct model will have a deep impact on you.

In my case, before having a proper model, I have never been able to visualise a lap of the track. I couldn’t even get through a couple of corners before falling out of flow. But when I got a proper handle on the rotation feeling, I could do lap after lap, no problem.

In the Physics of Car Control PDF download, I’ve given you an over view of the mental model you need. If you havn't seen it yet, do go to your email and download the PDF.

In our online training course, “The Physics of Race Car Handling”, your getting the complete story on the mental model you need for the most advanced visualization. None of it difficult to understand or too mathematical. If you motivated to improve your driving, then this is definitely worth your time to go through it. The course is applicable to beginners/grassroots/club racing drivers and highly experienced drivers alike. This is the real vehicle dynamics that most racing drivers will not have seen before.

It’s not only for visualization, of course. By understanding the vehicle dynamics behind the motions of the race car your mental model also helps with:

• Your feedback to your team and decisions about how you’ll improve the car.
• Get a higher appreciation of how you can best setup and develop the car. (We have additional training in suspension set-up for owner driver/ grassroots racers that integrates perfectly with the vehicle dynamics you learn here.

The course is in beta, and at 50% off at the moment. You keep the course and all updates into the future. I'm hoping as many more drivers get involved, that we can ever improve the concepts in the course. I will certainly appreciate your input. I am available to discuss anything in the course with you in the comments sections. We also have a Car Control Discussion Group where we can share ideas more deeply and learn from everybody in the group.

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