How do you do this?

[betegh9]

michael lang wrote:

Just a couple of weeks ago I went out for my last DE of the season with Potomac, and for some reason they had put me into the White Group eventhough they knew that I was a Blue Group student. I was told that they wanted to see how I would perform. I feel like I did a pretty good job and the instructors that rode with me were confirming that by saying that I was definitely in the correct run group based on my skill level. I was having some problems getting past some mental barriers with being so far out of my comfort zone trying to keep pace with the much faster drivers than myself that I would intermittently miss my various reference points on the track because I was driving faster than I was used to. As the weekend passed, my eyes had acclamated to the higher speed and my driving improved but I was still having some problems with it. Here's my question:

What types of things do you do while your on track to slow things down in your mind so that your eyes will adjust to faster speeds than what you are used to?

When I go around the corner tooooo fast, I just close my eyes, grunt a few 4 letter words, the open my eyes at track out. hock:

Really, the more track days you have, most of the motor skills will become second nature or go to your subconcious. This is when you do certain skills without having to think about it. Now that your mind does not have to think about all those things that your classroom instructor drilled in, you can now concentrate on other things without overload. Just remember that SPEED does not come by wanting and focusing on being faster than your buddy or the other guy on the track, it comes from concentrating on your OWN PERFORMANCE.