Driving lesson from a Nascar coach

[Bob Gagnon]

Here is a link to a news clip featuring a Nascar driver's coach. He has sage words that apply to all driving events.

http://www.theonion.com/content/video/n ... ls_winning

[Gary Burch]

The messages across the bottom are terrific. Also, good advice for all of us.

Gary

[martinreinhardt]

Nice suit coach, no comment on the IQ

[Jad]

The theory is good, but most of us don't have spotters/coaches saying left, left, left, left, straight, straight, left, etc so how are WE suppose to drive

[Rsylvestri]

I wish I could have just seen the pedal cam

[LUCKY DAVE]

It's fun to sneer at NASCRAP but I bet it's not as easy as it looks.
Think about it, 5 cars wide where 3 fit, sliding around a 200 mph sweeper wrestling with the wheel so as not to lose the rear, the air off the other cars blowing you around and upsetting the aerodynamics, six inches from the cars on all sides of you so you can't see anything.

Sounds easy, right? You try it.......

[Jad]

Not easy, but which would work better, switching all the F1 drivers to Nascar, or all the Nascar drivers to F1

Can you imagine twentytwo Nascar drivers rubbin' their way around Monaco

[Dan Chambers]

It's fun to sneer at NASCRAP but I bet it's not as easy as it looks.
Think about it, 5 cars wide where 3 fit, sliding around a 200 mph sweeper wrestling with the wheel so as not to lose the rear, the air off the other cars blowing you around and upsetting the aerodynamics, six inches from the cars on all sides of you so you can't see anything.

Sounds easy, right? You try it.......

Sounds like the SOW TT when Goerge c., Stacy S., Dave G., and I all tried to enter the "waterfall" off the back straight together .

End result: I backed off the throttle and watched from behind , George disappeared full throttle to where.. I don't know , Stacy veered left with 2-wheels off and punted a big cone perfectly over Dave G's car , and Dave G. slithered behind George C. to find his own line. All occuring at the top of 3rd gear. WooHoo! Fortunately, cool heads and smooth handling prevented anything more than a cone mark on Stacy's car ... and a soiled pair o' pants from my student.

Some times, the most exhilerating views are right out the front window.

[993Panzer]

Dano,

Actually I was in fourth gear and just past the century mark.

[Zulu993]

Nice-car is hard; 'cus you never know if the France family likes you or not! Just ask Smoke and Robby. Now take F1, if Bernie was really going trying to clean up “his” org you wouldn't punish the Mercedes siblings like he did in Hungary. You’d simply put the Spyker twins in the Mercedes and the Mercedes twin in the Spyker for the next race and see who prevails. I’m sorry Lewis Hamilton is a _____ (fill in the blank).

It’s sorta like, if I could choose my ride on Sat. I’d like to be in that Smurf mobile. It’s heads and tails above the rest….

[Dan Chambers]

Dano,

Actually I was in fourth gear and just past the century mark.

EEK!

[993Panzer]

Dano,

Actually I was in fourth gear and just past the century mark.

EEK!

Dano,

Next time we're both at streets do you want to go for a ride?

[Dan Chambers]

Dano,

Next time we're both at streets do you want to go for a ride?

ABSOLUTELY! (Just remind me to check on my life-insurance premiums before I strap in. )

[993Panzer]

Dano,

Next time we're both at streets do you want to go for a ride?

ABSOLUTELY! (Just remind me to check on my life-insurance premiums before I strap in. )

The offer goes for any track. Relax, you're riding with an amateur.