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What kind of gas mileage do you get in a race?
When negotiating a particularly difficult to pass track and you are racing against a competitor you know you have a slight advantage on, what is the thought process involved in choosing if you should push it and force a pass or if you should stay close and clean and hope for a mistake?
If it's an F1 driver who has qualified in the rain...
How do you walk with balls that big?
How do you cope with women throwing themselves at you constantly?
Where are these closed courses that I see in the commercials?
How do I get braking/turning timing right? Is it all paying attention to visual markers? If auto crossing, do you try to pick those markers on the course walk? I have a much harder time with the when than the how and I want to get better.
any tricks to avoid target fixation following close or packed in tight? I try looking around or through but catch myself locking in on the rear end of the car ahead.
How did you get your start in racing? To be more specific, what one thing/incident put you on the path to a career in racing.
Sorry misread the title. What about if you really have to go do you just go like in the car.
What sort of rituals or little superstitions do you have when getting in the car or ready to start a stint?
rustybugkiller wrote: Sorry misread the title. What about if you really have to go do you just go like in the car.
Watch "truth in 24", its about Audi and its campaign to win le mans in 2009 or 2010. There's a scene where during a driver change the replacement says something about the seat being wet and him going number 1.
What's is like to race the Isle of Mann?
mazdeuce wrote: How do I get braking/turning timing right? Is it all paying attention to visual markers? If auto crossing, do you try to pick those markers on the course walk? I have a much harder time with the when than the how and I want to get better.
THIS. Brake points are my weakest skill.
Spoolpigeon wrote: How do you cope with women throwing themselves at you constantly?
He said "pro," not "celebrity," they're not the same 
JohnRW1621 wrote: Where are these closed courses that I see in the commercials?
I can answer that one. They're wherever you want them to be if you have enough money. The streets of SF have been a "closed course" a couple of times.
I've noticed that all my offs have been on righthand corners. Why is that?
When overtaking slower class traffic that are engaged in a battle - how and where do you try set up your pass for the best chance of not being held up?
When racing a track you have never driven before what do you do to come up to speed quickly when all you have is practice and qualifying before you have to compete?
How long does it take to get used to a new car? Whether it be a new class of car or a new team? Any tricks to make the transition smoother and easier?
Mike Kirby
What is the degree to which you "back down" from your maximum pace if you are trying to conserve tire and/or do you pick and choose between which corners to attack less aggressively ... etc?
How do you keep sweat from running in your eyes on a 100+ day in a hot car? A cool suit keeps me from stroking out but I'm still sweating like it's my super power.
Do you bother to try to hide an erection when standing on top of a podium?
What's the one piece of advice you wish you'd been given when you first started?
In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker:
When we won our first crap can race, I don't think I was the only one on the team sporting a lil sumthin.
My question is: How do you know what the proper speed is for a corner? Do you just go faster and faster until something bad happens and then back off slightly from that?
Rob R.
wvumtnbkr wrote: In reply to Giant Purple Snorklewacker: When we won our first crap can race, I don't think I was the only one on the team sporting a lil sumthin. My question is: How do you know what the proper speed is for a corner? Do you just go faster and faster until something bad happens and then back off slightly from that? Rob R.
I can not really explain this but I will try. If I am driving a car that I am familiar with I know what the limits are. Visually I am processing the corner and this gets translated in to me knowing how fast I can go. If I have been on the track a while I am usually thinking about the next or even 3 corners ahead and not what I am doing with the car in the corner I am in because I have already done that corner in my mind. It is almost like auto pilot. I really am not thinking about the corner I am in at all I am just doing it.
Same for passing. I will set up a pass 1,2 or even 3 corners (some times a full lap)ahead in my head and when I make it I am not really thinking about it I just do what I have planed since I have already actually made the pass in my mind. This allows me to then look further down the track and or respond to immediate problems since I am not fixated on exactly what the car is doing at any given moment.
I know it sounds weird but that is the best that I can explain it.
EDIT: Thinking about this I can see that this may be one of he real defining differences between autocross and road course driving. In an Autocross you are fixated on the here and now nothing more. Interesting.
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