I drive a Porsche GT3 R in ACC. I’m experimenting with toe and camber. I prefer to use steering angle, throttle and brake to change the attitude of the car rather than make adjustments to the car then figuring out how to drive to those adjustments. I also drive with no TC. I don’t won’t to have the TC kick in when I don’t want it. I want to position the car the best as I can then use my inputs to do the rest. Rather than have fixed settings I can vary my inputs. Thoughts?

This vid, and indeed, your whole channel is sooo good. It's funny, you see all these guys who are (quickish) on track days, but have no idea in their first few club races and they just fall into a heap. People underestimate just how cerebral racing is.

This is a great episode, and what a surprise! I knew it was him when I saw the name. John Santiago was my logic professor my first semester of college. He actually did show us clips of him autocrossing his mustang. His class impacted the way I read math textbooks all through school, and obviously I still remember that he does autocross. Hopefully I'll run into him again some day. Thank you for all the episodes Ross Bentley! They're awesome and I've learned so much. I'm listening through the whole back catalog.

Great video thanks for the help!

I've seen some rider writing down notes without a map, I mean only descriptive note. What about that? Do you think it's still helpful?

Reading is accessible?! Only if you start off wealthy! Still waiting on an average guy race car scholarship! Haha! I'm going Brooke trying to keep racing lemons on a blue collar income, but I love it. 14 years in!

This makes me even more sesperate to get a wheel since I play with a mo

Trail braking you say…

Watching this before a rainy practice/quali day at Mid Ohio, and I am feeling much more confident for tomorrow. Driving in the rain on the simulator is super fun, so I'll try to make it fun in real life as well!

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What a fantastic example of driving by what you can feel!!! Also at many tracks squaring off the corners will take you off the line of rubber giving you much more grip than the line of rubber 😊

Stop rambling on and get to the point for goodness sake.

So technically, definition of rotating car is utilizing yawing to change direction of a car. Doing this you can minimize using steering angle, but a car still make proper turn on the corner. Utilizing this technique dramatically improved my lap time.

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Excellent instructional video. I am challenged to talk aloud, in real time, about what I am doing, what I am looking for, plan of attack, etc. How can this skill be improved, and will it ultimately help improve track driving performance? BTW, I just finished your latest Speed Secrets Self Coaching class, and you did not mention the skill of verbalizing everything in real time. Is that a more advanced skill?

Wow, what an amazing channel and the episode. I can see some of your videos don't have much views (compared to some more entertainment-oriented racing channels) and yet you keep adding great content for those of us who seeks it. Thank you for that!

I remember you from my Westwood days ☺. My last year was 1986

Excellent! I just wish I had those skills.

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You described my problem exactly. Now to work on that TI/EOB area. Thank you.

Another question I have is this Sir. I know that you shouldn't brake and turn at the same time. But is the opposite then true? You are talking about brake "release"... right? It's kinda interesting that it helps when you accelerate a little bit while turning a corner. What other reasons are behind this? Why does this work exactly BENTLEY?

Thanks prof., i usually end up overslowing and then upsetting the car with throttle. Im also bit premature on the throtle usage and end up trashing most of my laps because of that. Ill use your tip.

The chase, starting at 20:45. Question for anyone: Is it just me or did the black car signal to pass right, just after exiting the corner?

Thank you for this! Im new to rwd (GR86) and I had my first oversteer spinout at Summit Point Main (40F, wet) coming out of T9 and gave too much throttle mid turn and was not prepared how to correct it. As I started to skid, I took my foot off the gas (mistake 1), then tried to countersteer to get the car straight, but since I let off the gas, all the weight transferred to the front while trying to countersteer and not having prior practice was a scary, but good learning experience. After watching this, it makes alot more sense and I will make sure to apply in the future and keep practicing

Viva la speed secrets podcast! Good luck with new one

Listened to every episode of the podcast. Interested in the new one. Really happy about that E46 shifting question. Has been something on my mind a lot recently as a fellow e46m driver. You all broke his multi part question down really well. Got to all the minutia around that subject and cleared up a lot for me.

As someone new to sim racing this was validating. Gotta get more consistent now

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Thanks for having this podcast up on KZfaq Ross. I recently bought a new car for everything ie a drive, track, B road thrashing. I have been told to go out on street tyres to learn what and when the car will move around. My thought has always been get sticky tyres so that things don't go wrong and you end up off the track. This podcast explains why you should go out on street tyres and what to take away from doing that. My problem now is that at 62 years of age and with a car worth good money is the risk worth the reward, I definitely want the skills but at what cost ? Maybe and old Miata or RX8 or 86(BRZ) would have been a better choice.

so much to learn so little amount of money :) A fascinating Podcast, thank you for doing it.

I'm from Knoxville, who was on the call from there?

Rock star advice and resources. Thanks huge

This just happen to me at Barber,, I was going into turn 1.. My car came around , I some what lifed but never hit the brakes. Car came back around and I was fine.. Lucky i guess..just stay focus..Great vid

Good to know may i get myself an old timer 👀🤔

This is very interesting to me as a track driver who doubles as my own 'engineer'. I happen to be a mechanical engineer so it's great to learn about suspension geometry, tyre grip curves etc as I concurrently learn about turn-in, mid-corner balance etc from the driver's perspective. It's a heck of a process to understand and adjust a setup while also trying to adapt to the constantly changing vehicle dynamics, not to mention changing conditions and 'driver operating parameters' (which is still the biggest issue!!)

One of the reasons the Apollo program was cut short was America had lost interest. Apollo 11 was covered extremely well. The wives of the Apollo 13 crew had to go to the VIP room to get updates. Most books on the subject are the lead up to Apollo 11.... Apollo 13 got America interested again.

I never trained for racing but last year I participated in a autocross event and I won defeating pro racers 😅 I use to play racing games a lot from my childhood and I think that made a difference 😂. I uploaded a video on my channel where I set the fastest lap time in the finals of open class with my stock car where there were many pro racers with their tuned cars and slick tyres and I'm all stock with touring tyres😂 I struggle only with braking 😅 any advice pls 🙏

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This is so stupid

thanks guys will put this on whilst im working this afternoon and then fail to apply any of it to my racing 😂 have a great week 🙂

I wonder if that’s the real reason senna used to blip the throttle in corners

Schumacher would most of the time delay breaking, break harder and deeper in the corner and rotate to accelerate faster and harder off the corner.

Turning in early also reduces the distance you are traveling, so providing you can get the car turned in and pointed you may gain time that way.

Swimming (freestyle and backstroke) also do some of this, but Cross Crawls are MUCH more useful at the track. Thank you!

like these podcasts whilst im working thanks jeff and ross!

I was doing it coming into MG (turn #10) here at Phillip Island. It felt natural and i enjoyed the feeling. Now i understand what and how I've done it lol.

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43:15 your point that it's not risky to at least turn in from the very edge of the track is a good one. As you say, we don't necessarily have to cut it so fine on exit if we want to be a little conservative in practice. But actually, it's safer to turn in from the edge than somewhere else the car just happens to find itself, because by taking the larger radius there's much less risk you will miss the apex and run wide. And it gives a bit more margin for error in the choice of braking point.