{"id":41760,"date":"2022-09-27T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T14:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=41760"},"modified":"2024-03-23T09:21:02","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T16:21:02","slug":"q-what-do-you-think-of-the-advice-point-your-nose-where-you-want-to-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-what-do-you-think-of-the-advice-point-your-nose-where-you-want-to-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: What do you think of the advice, \u201cpoint your nose where you want to go?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-41761 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Ask-Ross-image-3-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>Q<\/strong>: <em>\u201cI have heard the phase: Point your nose where you want to go. What do you think? I\u2019ve watched F1 drivers at Montreal doing this in a very exaggerated way at the final chicane.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A<\/strong>: Great advice. The idea is that you should turn your head and look to where you want to go, and it\u2019s part of a good driver\u2019s vision skills.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I do when coaching a driver is watch for head movement. If I don\u2019t see the driver\u2019s head and helmet turn towards the corner at the right time, then that\u2019s a skill we\u2019re going to work on.<\/p>\n<p>Research has been done on head movement and eye movements for all sorts of activities, including driving. But I found one study interesting; it looked at (no pun intended) people walking along a sidewalk, and then turning 90-degrees to head down a perpendicular street. What they found is the people turn their head approximately three-quarters of a second before their bodies changed direction. So, the head leads the rest of the body. The same thing happens with the best drivers.<\/p>\n<p>This advice works well in controlling a skid or slide. The old advice of \u201cSteer into the skid\u201d works, but it\u2019s confusing for some people because they\u2019re not clear on which way the skid is going. If you \u201cpoint your nose\u201d or look to where you want to go, your hands will follow, turning the steering wheel into the skid.<\/p>\n<p>Point your nose where you want to go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Q: What do you think of the advice, \u201cpoint your nose where you want to go?&#8221;<\/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-41760","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\/41760","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=41760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41762,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41760\/revisions\/41762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}