{"id":8591,"date":"2018-04-16T04:15:52","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T11:15:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=8591"},"modified":"2018-03-16T17:54:20","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T00:54:20","slug":"q-can-you-address-racecraft-passing-and-race-traffic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-can-you-address-racecraft-passing-and-race-traffic\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Can you address racecraft, passing and race traffic?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q<\/strong>: \u201cI race in the Champcar Endurance Series, formerly Chumpcar.\u00a0One of the many things I\u2019d like to get better at is dealing with traffic.\u00a0Sometimes it\u2019s cars that are a lot slower than ours, sometimes close in speed, and then there are the ones that are faster.\u00a0I\u2019m a long-time autocrosser and the addition of others around me can be a serious overload of stimuli.\u00a0We just finished up our 4th season so I\u2019m better at this than I was, but still feel like there\u2019s a long way to go.\u00a0To add to the challenge often we are on a new-to-us track, or one that we only go to once a year. Can you address this topic?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A<\/strong>: That topic \u2013 racecraft \u2013 is much bigger than I could ever address in this column! In fact, I did a full webinar on that topic, and talked for about 2.5 hours. I suggest you take a look at downloading and watching it (Improving Your Racecraft<\/em>) by going to SpeedSecrets.com\/Webinars<\/a>.<\/p>\n

What I will address here is that racecraft has more to do with your mindset \u2013 your attitude or mental approach \u2013 than it does with technique. Sure, there are the strategies and tactics of passing, being passed, and race starts, but if you have the right mindset you\u2019ll find most of them. I created a video titled The Racer\u2019s Mindset<\/a><\/em> to help drivers get a better understanding of that mental approach. You can watch it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Finally, racecraft takes hands-on practice. I can tell you where to position your car to set up a pass, but you need to go do it for it to really make sense and sink in. Some of that practice should take place mentally, by doing mental imagery (visualization), because you can pre-play many scenarios in your mind so you feel prepared (impacting your mindset in a positive way). You can figure out some of the tactics in your mind before you ever get on track. But, obviously, you need to eventually get on track and just do it. That\u2019s why I think it\u2019s great that you\u2019re racing in one of the \u201clow budget\u201d endurance race series. The more of that you do, the better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q: \u201cI race in the Champcar Endurance Series, formerly Chumpcar.\u00a0One of the many things I\u2019d like to get better at is dealing with traffic.\u00a0Sometimes it\u2019s cars that are a lot slower than ours, sometimes close in speed, and then there are the ones that are faster.\u00a0I\u2019m a long-time autocrosser and the addition of others around me can be a serious overload of stimuli.\u00a0We just finished up our 4th season so I\u2019m better at this than I was, but still feel like there\u2019s a long way to go.\u00a0To add to the challenge often we are on a new-to-us track, or one that we only go to once a year. Can you address this topic?\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-8591","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\/8591","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=8591"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8596,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8591\/revisions\/8596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}