{"id":39693,"date":"2022-02-22T11:00:12","date_gmt":"2022-02-22T19:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=39693"},"modified":"2024-03-23T08:16:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T15:16:02","slug":"q-is-there-a-correlation-with-learning-to-be-faster-and-being-more-inconsistent-with-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-is-there-a-correlation-with-learning-to-be-faster-and-being-more-inconsistent-with-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Is there a correlation with learning to be faster and being more inconsistent with lines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-39694 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ask-Ross-image-2-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>Q<\/strong>: <em>\u201c<\/em><em>In June I had raced at High Plains Raceway, a track I am very familiar with, and I was averaging around 2:24 lap times, but I was consistent with lines and felt confident with my skill. This past weekend I was there and was averaging 2:16 lap times &#8211; getting quite a bit faster &#8211; but I felt like I was inconsistent and off my game. So, in your opinion is there a correlation with learning to be faster and being more inconsistent with lines?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>: Yes, I believe it\u2019s part of the learning process, and almost every driver I\u2019ve coached goes through this kind of thing. As you become consistent, you create the mental programming in your mind. But to go faster, you have to break that programming\/habit, and build some new programming &#8211; and that means your driving will be a bit messy for a while, before the next level becomes your new consistent. Think of it as steps.<\/p>\n<p>Learning is all about creating the programming in your mind to do things with as little conscious thought as possible, so you\u2019re able to drive almost on auto-pilot, but still having your conscious mind available to be aware of what\u2019s going on around you. To move to the next level, you have to get outside your comfort zone \u2013 the level of your current mental programming \u2013 and that means you\u2019ll be thinking more about what you\u2019re doing skill-wise. That can give you the feeling of being \u201coff your game.\u201d Give yourself enough practice at this level, and it will become your \u201cnew normal.\u201d It will become the updated software in your mind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: \u201cIn June I had raced at High Plains Raceway, a track I am very familiar with, and I was averaging around 2:24 lap times, but I was consistent with lines and felt confident with my skill. This past weekend I was there and was averaging 2:16 lap times &#8211; getting quite a bit faster &#8211; but I felt like I was inconsistent and off my game. So, in your opinion is there a correlation with learning to be faster and being more inconsistent with lines?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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-39693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ask-ross"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39693","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=39693"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39695,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39693\/revisions\/39695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}