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Re: Learning to Drive

To: "Larry Young" <cartravel@pobox.com>, <fot@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Learning to Drive
From: "Jeff Snook" <jsnook@wcnet.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:20:15 -0500
Larry,

How to improve your driving?

SEAT TIME! SEAT TIME! SEAT TIME!

Jeff Snook
www.snooksdreamcars.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry Young" <cartravel@pobox.com>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, November 07, 2003 2:20 PM
Subject: Learning to Drive


> We had a one hour Enduro at the CVAR race this past weekend.  Bob Kramer 
> and I decided to share the driving of my car.  Bob is a previous owner 
> of the car and a more experienced driver, so I thought it would be 
> interesting to see what he could do with it.  Sure enough, it took him 
> only about 5 laps to get down to my best lap time after two years of 
> struggling.  He probably would have gone even faster if the race hadn't 
> been cut short.  So, I'm wondering how to improve.  I've been through 
> the CVAR school at TWS and a Stephen's Bros. school at Hallet.  Both of 
> these schools  showed me "the line" for that course, but didn't explain 
> "why". I'm sure there are those that have natural instincts for driving, 
> but I'm not one of them.  I feel like I need to understand a bit more 
> about the physics of driving.  I've read Carroll Smith's book "Drive to 
> Win", but it's written for F1 wannabes and didn't do much for me.  Can 
> anyone recommend books or schools that might help?
> Thanks,
> Larry Young

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