HeyJaredDRIVING DIRECTIONS: Ross Bentley's Speed Secrets
Tips, opinions, stories & whatever else I like to share with you about high-performance & race driving, sim racing, coaching, recent motorsport events & stories from the road. Oh, and the lessons I’ve learned from six decades in & around motorsport.
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Speed Secrets: How to Improve Your Lap Times (opens the original)
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The moment you’ve driven one lap on a race track, you’re never the same again; you look at the world in a completely different way. You begin to see apexes in city street intersections, the elevation changes on mountain highways as differing traction levels, and what you do with your feet on the gas and brake pedals as a dance.Of course, once you’ve dri… Read more
Speed Secrets: The Art and Science of Performance Driving (opens the original)
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And now for something completely different. Okay, not completely, but certainly a bit different. I spend a lot of time sharing information with you to help you think: vehicle dynamics, geometry of corners, neuroscience of what’s going on inside your head, the best methods of learning, and so on. Very much the science of driving.Today, though, I’m writing about play, about letting go, about the art of driving.As a baseline, let’s start by understanding what we’re working with (here we go again wi
Driving Lessons: Was My Racing Career Just an Apprenticeship for Coaching? (opens the original)
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From the time was five years old, I wanted to race cars. In my late teens, when I was trying to figure out how to financially get started in racing, the thought of coaching never crossed my mind. Yes, I had done some tennis coaching, but that was just something to do so I could spend more time on the courts (and probably less time where I should have be… Read more
Speed Secrets: Make Elevation & Camber Your Friend (opens the original)
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This week we’re looking at another key Principle: Using elevation and camber to your advantage.Not using elevation and camber changes to their advantage is a common “failure” that I see far too many drivers make.Many drivers see the track in a 2-dimensional way, prioritizing the geometrical line through a corner (focusing on maximizing radius), and not taking into account the benefits of elevation and camber changes (the 3D aspects) that generate more grip.Spa’s Eau Rouge-Raidillon section of tr
Random Air Travel Observations & Recommendations (opens the original)
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A couple of years ago, I published a post here on Driving Directions about air travel etiquette. I had written the entire piece on my phone in the time between sitting down in my aisle seat and when the plane took off. The rants suggestions poured out of me, and they must have hit a raw nerve for many readers for there may have been more comments on tha…
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