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1. Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: Larry Young <cartravel@pobox.com>; Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 13:20:44 -0600; 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; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00046.html (8,187 bytes)
2. RE: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: "spitfiresuz@141.com" <spitfiresuz@141.com>; Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:46:52 -0500; Hi Larry! The CVAR school and the Stephens Brothers school are both mainly geared toward racing safely at those specific tracks, and how to drive those tracks in your specific car (I have been throug; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00047.html (9,688 bytes)
3. Re: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: "Bob Kramer" <rgk@flash.net>; Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 14:17:20 -0600; You are doing fine out there. I have 7 years of driving and plenty of room for improvement. You are just two years into the same learning curve.You also have to remember that it is my old car, kinda; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00048.html (9,686 bytes)
4. Re: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: "Jeff Snook" <jsnook@wcnet.org>; Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:20:15 -0500; How to improve your driving? SEAT TIME! SEAT TIME! SEAT TIME! Jeff Snook www.snooksdreamcars.com; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00050.html (8,997 bytes)
5. re: learning to drive (score: 1): Author: BRITPAC@aol.com; Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 18:30:27 EST; Another time tested method is to follow an experienced driver in a similar car. That's how I ran my first laps at Riverside. The instructor took us around in tow, and showed us 'the line'. Then, he a; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00051.html (7,915 bytes)
6. Re: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: Henry Frye <henry@henryfrye.com>; Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:53:08 -0500; Larry, I second Jeff's recommendation, and have one thing to add... MORE SEAT TIME! PS. I took the Skip Barber 3 day school back before I took my TR4 on track. They taught the art and science of driv; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00052.html (8,143 bytes)
7. Re: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: Larry Young <cartravel@pobox.com>; Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 18:00:46 -0600; I appreciate all the input I've already gotten from everyone. I should have mentioned the car I'm driving. As Jack Drews described in the Mid-Ohio video, it is the yellow TR3 that was "soldiering alo; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00053.html (9,735 bytes)
8. Re: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: RDWISMER@aol.com; Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 19:45:15 EST; I suspect every racer has their favorite "how to do it" book, drivers school or "driver coach." But what will work best for you is dependent upon how you learn. Are you "hands on" or "reflective"? C; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00054.html (8,384 bytes)
9. Re: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: Dave Riddle <dave@microworks.net>; Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 19:30:33 -0700; Ditto on Frere's book. I also like Vic Elford's PORSCHE HIGH-PERFOMANCE DRIVING HAND BOOK. He really goes into the mechanicals of both the "mechanics" of how to both drive the track and how to drive; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00055.html (8,365 bytes)
10. RE: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>; Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 20:37:16 -0800; There's one thing that I think rapidly improves lap times (once handling is sorted out) and that's learning to hustle the car in the fast corners. It's not something I learned in any class I ever too; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00056.html (9,799 bytes)
11. RE: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>; Date: Fri, 7 Nov 2003 20:47:47 -0800; Oh, one more thing, a late apex is safer, a slightly earlier one is generally faster if you're putting the car close to the limit. There's one thing that I think rapidly improves lap times (once hand; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00057.html (10,307 bytes)
12. RE: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: Dave Riddle <dave@microworks.net>; Date: Fri, 07 Nov 2003 22:40:28 -0700; That's funny and convey's what I always tell students that show an appititude (those without ability I don't waste the time telling) "you want to late apex as early as you can". It is hard to describ; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00058.html (10,433 bytes)
13. Re: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: "tom strange" <tstrange@new.rr.com>; Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 07:45:13 -0600; One more note I dont see here (now that my computers running again....) Corners you have trouble with... go out and corner work at them. Its amazing what you can see people doing from a corner worker; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00059.html (11,406 bytes)
14. Re: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: Ted Schumacher <tedtsimx@bright.net>; Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 09:44:29 -0500; Excellent point. Whenever I instruct, my studnets have to go work a corner for an entire session. Gives a "whole new meaning to life" for them. Ted -- Ted Schumacher tedtsimx@bright.net http://www.ts; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00060.html (12,429 bytes)
15. Re: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: "kas kastner" <kaskas@cox.net>; Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 08:49:23 -0800; Back in the old Cal Club days (50'sand early 60's) drivers that were a problem were brought up before the contest board and if found wanting in attitude or ability were sentenced to a weekend of work; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00061.html (13,459 bytes)
16. Re: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: REK46@aol.com; Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 15:25:40 EST; I have to agree as well. Most of us had to work corners or grid,and or worked them before we even had a car,just to be close and part of the racing . A good deal of the racers came from those worker; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00062.html (8,507 bytes)
17. RE: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: "Doug Mitchell" <dmitchel@sbcglobal.net>; Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 17:05:54 -0500; The only problem with sending a driver to a corner for a session or even a day is that it is scary for the flagger to have to watch someone who may not want to be there. I don't mind having a driver; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00063.html (9,990 bytes)
18. RE: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: "Jim Gambony" <britbits@tiu.net>; Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 17:47:55 -0600; If you've got the time to spend doing it, autocrossing is a great way to learn how to hustle the car around corners. In terms of track time/time at the site it doesn't compare to track racing (usuall; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00067.html (10,614 bytes)
19. RE: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>; Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 18:40:41 -0800; One of the things I love about vintage racing is that there are no right or wrong answers. Getting a car with suspension that can only generously be described as marginal and tires that are intention; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00068.html (12,096 bytes)
20. Re: Learning to Drive (score: 1): Author: "Robert Dardano" <19to1tr6@comcast.net>; Date: Sat, 8 Nov 2003 23:36:42 -0500; "Going Faster" by Carl Lopez With chapters like "The real world Line" "Short cuts to the line " "Beyond Geometry".Its published buy Robert Bentley rob -- Original Message -- From: "Larry Young" <cart; /html/fot/2003-11/msg00069.html (9,268 bytes)

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