I get a huge kick out of helping drivers of all levels of performance and race driving perform better - drive faster, get better at the mental game of driving (Inner Speed Secrets), drive smoother, hit their apexes, learn new race tracks faster, drive at the limit, improve their racecraft, win races, and have more fun. Here's where you'll find performance driving tips, race driving tips, advice on how to drive faster, and insights into the Speed Secrets world. For more information, check out speedsecrets.com. And please do me a favor... First, please subscribe to this channel, and secondly, share these videos with others. My hope is that in doing so, we'll build our motorsport community and grow the sport of performance and race driving. - Ross Bentley
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.
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!
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!
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 😊
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.
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?
I added the verbalizing to this video afterwards. I wasn’t talking out loud while driving. The challenge is there’s not enough time to talk at speed, so it might even be a distraction. I know some drivers do talk while driving but it’s not something that I do, or necessarily recommend. It’s okay if you do, if it works for you. But not if it doesn’t, if it’s more of a distraction. I do strongly believe in simple “trigger” words or phrases, like the ones I’m using in this video - but I’d suggest using them as a “voice in your head” to remind yourself of what’s important.
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!
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?
Who said you should never brake and turn at the same time? They’re wrong. Thats what trail braking is, and it’s what every successful performance/race driver does.
@@Speedsecrets1 Hmm.. What does 'releasing' the brake mean then? Doesn't the car get out of control if you take a turn too fast that way? Is it because the car tries to do two things at once? Turning the wheel and at the same time breaking? Is it because the car loses grip? How should it be done then? Could you elaborate? Thanks in advance.
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.
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
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.
Thanks for having this podcast up on RU-vid 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.
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
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 🙏
Yeah, exactly. My name is Sena. I'm taking driving lessons and I noticed that I accelerate a bit when I make a turn. I was actually wondering why this is working. Now I get it. But does this also have to do with the car having more grip while taking a corner this way?
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.
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.
