It's Not the Car Listener Q&A: Track-Day Focus for Beginners
It’s another “No Dumb Questions!” You email to ask, we sit down to answer. There are no dumb questions in racing … but there might be some dumb answers.
Topics this week: What are the three most important things a beginning track-day driver should focus on? Is it possible to give yourself extra mental bandwidth while driving at speed? And how do you pull feedback from a car—an EV, for example—that seemingly doesn't have much to say?
This show’s format rotates weekly, because squirrel. For this episode, we’re borrowing the No Dumb Questions framework from Ross’s old “Speed Secrets” podcast.
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This episode was produced by Mike Perlman.
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