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Old 10-24-2019, 01:32 PM   #363 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by ZCanadian View Post
100% this.



Even after several years of HPDE days and ride-alongs on the track with experienced drivers, I am truly only just realizing how much I still have to to learn about driving fast. And I've had my license for many, many decades.
Gonna jump on this bandwagon as I went from participating in HPDE with my boosted Z to a Miata. I am approaching one year in the Miata and I was ten seconds faster at the track I did my first event at last week. Between track time and instruction my confidence and skills have increased. The real deal in learning how to drive a slow car fast is being able to drive the car at its limit once your skills have improved accordingly. In a fast car learning becomes slower once you hit a certain point because pushing a fast car to the limit can be extremely dangerous. I am confident that when I get back into my boosted Z I will be slow but way faster than I was when my motor let go.

What I have witnessed is one of my favorite NASA instructor do (he races spec miata) is jump in the car (Corvette Corvette z06) of another experienced instructor and drive it 3 to 4 seconds faster without pushing it in his mind lol!

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