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JUN 2015

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Grassroots Motorsports 83 5. Don't Scare or Surprise the Brain When your visual depths of field get shorter, escalating speed progres- sively increases your anxiety. Once your visual focus is inside your reac- tion distance, your eye movement becomes fixed. You stop scanning for crucial information. The fundamental result of progres- sively increasing anxiety is fear. Fear brings panic inputs, and involuntary panic input is always wrong. A brain that has been scared sends off commands that don't help lap times: Lift! Look over here instead of here! Brake in the middle of the turn! Have a good understanding of what you did right. And have a better under- standing of what you did wrong. 6. Don't Be a Sucker for the Adrenalin Rush Driving is all about making good judgments. Judgment is not a sensation: It takes the form of thought. Most feel-fast sensations, for exam- ple, are distractions that can be quite unrelated to quick lap times. Carry- ing demonic amounts of speed into a turn may feel fast or gain you a few hundredths of a second initially, but it sacrifces overall speed and can cost you entire seconds. "Carrying demonic speed into a turn may feel fast or gain you a few hundredths of a second initially, but it sacrifces overall speed and can cost you entire seconds." T . Learn how to pr scan the track and, most , don't scare the brain

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