{"id":31176,"date":"2020-04-20T03:00:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-20T10:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=31176"},"modified":"2020-04-12T16:13:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T23:13:46","slug":"q-where-should-i-be-looking-when-driving-on-a-race-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-where-should-i-be-looking-when-driving-on-a-race-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Where should I be looking when driving on a race track?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Q<\/strong>: <em>\u201cI\u2019m told to look far ahead on the track, but where? That advice seems vague \u2013 how far ahead, and at what?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>: Certainly, looking far ahead is good advice for the track. But yes, how far? Is it possible to look too far ahead? Yes, you can, if you keep your visual focus out there for too long. You should be moving your visual focus from way out in front of you \u2013 almost as far as you can physically see \u2013 to key reference points you use to guide you around the track, and back again. As a very general guideline, the key references you\u2019re looking for at are \u201ctwo ahead.\u201d Let me use an example to explain what I mean by that.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine you\u2019re approaching a corner. As you get into the brake zone, the next key reference is where you\u2019re going to initiate your turn into the corner \u2013 the turn-in point. That\u2019s \u201cone ahead.\u201d While you\u2019ve identified it, and can see it, your eyes should be glancing ahead, looking for the apex \u2013 that\u2019s the next key reference, and it\u2019s \u201ctwo ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As you get close to the turn-in point, you trust your peripheral vision to ensure that you\u2019re actually turning the steering wheel at the turn-in point. By that point on the track, you should be glancing way up ahead, looking for the exit\/track-out point \u2013 that\u2019s \u201ctwo ahead\u201d since it\u2019s past the apex.<\/p>\n<p>If, the next time on track, you think about this guideline of looking \u201ctwo ahead,\u201d but ensure that your vision is going from a quick glance way ahead \u2013 past the \u201ctwo ahead\u201d reference \u2013 and then back to the key reference, quick glance ahead, back to the next key reference, and so on. All this time, you\u2019re using your peripheral vision to check your progress and make minor adjustments as you\u2019re passing these key references.<\/p>\n<p>So, there\u2019s a process or system to this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Glance<\/strong> ahead to give your brain a long-term picture and target for where you\u2019re going, as well as checking to see that everything is clear. This glance is just that \u2013 a glance, and it\u2019s very quick.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Focus<\/strong> on the key references (Begin-of-Braking, Turn-in, End-of-Braking, Apex, Exit\/Track-out) that are \u201ctwo ahead.\u201d You should spend a little time focused on this part of the track, but still, it\u2019s a quick move of your vision from the glance to these references, and back again. You can think of it as spending about twice as long looking at these references than you do on the glance ahead.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Peripherally<\/strong>, check your progress, while being aware of everything around you \u2013 other cars, conditions, and second-level references.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see (no pun intended), your vision is never in one place for any length of time, as it\u2019s flicking and scanning ahead (Glance), back to mid-distance (Focus), ahead, peripheral, and so on. And as an overall theme, \u201clook way ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/UOYa1d1rkHw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>How to Use Your Vision When Driving on a Race Track.<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: \u201cI\u2019m told to look far ahead on the track, but where? That advice seems vague \u2013 how far ahead, and at what?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ask-ross"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31176"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31177,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31176\/revisions\/31177"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}