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[Land-speed] learning part 3

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Subject: [Land-speed] learning part 3
From: "Keith Turk" <kturk@ala.net>
Date: Sun, 26 Aug 2007 01:17:22 -0500
The point of this whole exercise was to talk about how we go about learning to
race a car correctly...   Tonya and I have had a great time doing all of this
and teaching her to drive a race car has been one of the true joys of my
life...  Maybe I think to much about this junk... but after each event we go
thru a process of evaluating performance and critiquing it to the inth
degree...  reinforcing the positives and evaluating changes necessary for the
negatives...

One of the things we've come up with is the deal with recency and real skill
sets... the discussion about driving schools was specifically associated with
increasing our skill set.

Another great part of my life is doing Tech for the Hot Rod magazine events
and it cracks me up every time... because these yahoo's are exactly like
Bonneville racers... they will work on a motor until is sings to the last
single Hp available... but do they check that the horn works or that the
blinkers Blink?  oh hell no.... that's simply not part of the skill set...
I'm bringing all this driving and learning stuff up.... because after you've
squeezed that last full hp out of it... someone still has to competently get
it down the course...  Somewhere in there is a driver... and that driver has
to learn to do this ....

Keith ( damn I love waking up in the middle of the night with a thought and
not being able to get it outta my head...  hopefully I won't wake up in the
morning and regret I did this )
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