{"id":9499,"date":"2018-06-11T04:34:01","date_gmt":"2018-06-11T11:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/?p=9499"},"modified":"2018-06-03T22:01:54","modified_gmt":"2018-06-04T05:01:54","slug":"q-given-the-chance-do-i-pass-now-or-wait-to-the-last-lap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/q-given-the-chance-do-i-pass-now-or-wait-to-the-last-lap\/","title":{"rendered":"Q: Given the chance, do I pass now or wait to the last lap?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Q: <\/strong>“Imagine a scenario: I am in the second position trying to grab first place as the car is close to me in front. I have many laps to go. Should I try to overtake as soon as I can or wait for the race to come down to only a few laps to the finish, and then make my move? What type of strategy do you think is best? Should I hold back a little and wait to make a move later or just try to overtake him as soon as possible while I have more laps?”<\/em><\/p>\n

A:\u00a0<\/strong>Knowing when to pass and when to be patient to set up for one later in a race is what racecraft is all about. The decision in this situation comes down to this: If you make the pass now, can you put enough of a gap between you and the other car that it makes it unlikely he will be able to re-pass you?<\/p>\n

The only time you should not take advantage of a passing opportunity is if by doing so you\u2019re putting yourself in a position to be overtaken again \u2013 and often without enough time to re-pass again, such as the last lap. If it\u2019s going to be one of those races that comes down to who makes the last pass on the last lap, which doesn\u2019t give the other driver a chance to re-pass, then wait. But if by passing now you can put yourself in a position where the other driver won\u2019t be able to pass you back, then take advantage of the opportunity as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

By passing the other car now, you give yourself a chance to pull out a lead, and that might be a big benefit.<\/p>\n

The other thing to keep in mind is if it\u2019s going to come down to the last lap pass, and it\u2019s relatively early in the race, you might even want to practice that pass now. Set up the pass and make it as if it\u2019s the last lap, so you\u2019re prepared. Of course, the downside of doing that is that you teach your competitor what you\u2019re going to do \u2013 and even how he might do it back to you. So you need to decide how confident you are that you can make the pass without having done it before.<\/p>\n

I hate to give up an opportunity to pass when it\u2019s there, but if I need to be patient to protect my position on the last lap, I will. That\u2019s smart racing. That\u2019s good racecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Q: “Imagine a scenario: I am in the second position trying to grab first place as the car is close to me in front. I have many laps to go. Should I try to overtake as soon as I can or wait for the race to come down to only a few laps to the finish, and then make my move? What type of strategy do you think is best? Should I hold back a little and wait to make a move later or just try to overtake him as soon as possible while I have more laps?”<\/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-9499","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\/9499","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=9499"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9504,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9499\/revisions\/9504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/speedsecrets.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}