Great videos with lots of information. Great customer car! I watched your RSR team up video about a trip to the Nurburgring and Spa Francorchamps, and those events seem like the cars are owned by RSR and the participants do not need to own or bring their expensive track cars, but in these videos it seems like your North American events all of the people are using their own cars. Is this the case, or do you have cars which can be rented for the events?

Great video. Helped me memorize the corners for an HPDE weekend with the Audi Club.

Women are ALWAYS interesting drivers. “Mommy’s sorry I ran over your tricycle, Tommy. What was it doing in the garden anyway?”

This must be ancient... I haven't seen paint at the curbs in years.

done.

It's rocket science man, i stick to traditional shifting

Been watching videos to better my forza driving 😂

I was there that day from California!!

Glad she's enjoying the delights of driving herself. It's a lot better than the passenger seat.

So want to be there!

Makes me proud, I've done exactly as he recommended...I've put brand new coil overs, tires, wheels, brakes, and bushings all around on my car before Ive even touched anything else...next comes a LSD, then ill be looking into possible possible power upgrades

brake for the turn without slowing down. umm .. how do you brake without slowing down? and if you use the brake to steer that's still right.

I think it’s time for an update on these! Over a decade old!

Thank you. Have participated in HOD events, and they’re good.

Hooked started me on this track with my '90 Miata, set up for autocross, and it was a fun and safe introduction. You will feel some G forces and elevation changes. Close to me and not too $$$. Recommend!

Awesome! Would love to see more videos

3:30 thats how i imagine i need to drive my car, its fwd with long wheelbase and almost 400 lb ft of torque, all it does is understeer lol i havnt even managed lift off oversteer yet lol

I'd say braking is the MOST important aspect in going fast with a car. If you don't get your braking points right then you'll lose. Braking at the right moment is the be-all and end-all of going fast around a racetrack, anyone can go fast in a straight line but it's the braking points where time is won and lost.

Soo slow down before you come to the turn, and then floor it.

Was impossible on my last car (Pontiac G5), but really starting to get the hang of it in my Eclipse GT

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Very good instruction and very useful. I m looking forward to applying these training next week!

Very interesting and informative stuff. Thanks.

I am confused, not with the technique, but with the sequence, cause I've the sequence ordered differently and keep wondering if the way i am doing it is correct. I am not sure if it's the way my mind is seeing it, but I've seen this sequence done differently, were people blip first then downshift, i am not sure if the order matters or if there is a correct way to do this.

240p.... _hello darkness my old friend_

Randy Pobst describes inversely, that the FR layout has a unique driving characteristic, allowing the driver to accelerate out of the middle of a curve.

Was this recorded with a potato

he should be an politican. talking too much, saying too little.

Correct me if i'm wrong but doesn't awd let you step on the gas pedal sooner than front wheel and rear wheel on corner exit?

How do you downshift on the track without using this technique? My 1st time on the track I could get this about half the time so the instructor just told me to keep the car in 3rd gear. Isn't there anyway to downshift on the track without doing this?

Funny he talks about how to drive AWD since he sucks at it so bad (and even admitted somewhere how he hates AWD vehicles)

Guy has the #1 best lap time at Laguna Seca.

This is why my chucks are my favorite driving shoes. I'm not able to do heel/toe with some of my shoes, so I'll end up blowing the downshifts. Grrr.

i usually clutch ~> downshift ~> throttle I brake when i need to but whenever the rpm is around 1500, i rev and down shift without the need of braking.

A friend of mine once said this was a precursor to drifting. Is that true?

"Advanced technique" they say, I've pretty much mastered it on the street and I haven't even been to the track once. I'm not bragging, just saying that this technique isn't that hard to master, anyone can with practice.

The late apex for cars with great and high power acceleration. Traditional apex for cars with low end power.

Nice one. But one need to practice a lot to master it.

most annoying intro sound ever recorded and played on youtube

Shouldnt u by right bleep n down gear at the same time , this video is not really clear .

Great introduction to learning a track. Sharing again to SouthWest MotorSport for new drivers & students!

I learned this in 2 phases. Phase 1 was learning how to precisely rev match the engine when you down shift without braking. So basically you go rather slowly in a higher gear, and you downshift while doing the throttle blip without even touching the brake. For this you need to go slow so the engine won't over rev once the downshift is completed. So once you know the correct timing and the exact amount of "blip" you need, you need to go to phase 2, which is basically practicing how to press the brake and the gas pedal in the same time. You can do this even while you're standing still for a start. And as you become comfortable with it, continue doing it while driving. And the most important thing is, the more you do it, the better you become

This is really just braking and rev matching right, because the clutch it still fully depressed?? Isn't it more gentle on the input and layshaft to do a double clutch down shift whilst braking, which means that you bite the clutch to rev match whilst out of gear, allowing all the gearbox components to synchronize, then re-engage the clutch to down shift?

thanks ..k.i.s.s.

I think the theory here is doing it with the ball of your feet and rocking sideways will give you better and more constant brake pressure. However, I disagree with the way this technique is taught. I'm no racing professional, but I get by just fine using the brake pedal with the entire ball of my foot, and rocking my heel sideways, pivoting on the ball, to jab the gas. Its not so much my heel, but the side of it. I just don't think this is as consistent as the other, more "traditional" way i've described above. It seems like your foot could easily slip off the gas pedal if you aren't careful, and this could cause you to lose control or hit someone else if you're out on the track...

my problem is that the way I'm used to shift, I'm having a hard time shifting the gear (and releasing the clutch) but at the same time doing the blip basically the co-ordination of moving my right hand,right foot while also releasing the left foot , and of course I don't want to damage my car, so I don't really practice it a lot .. oh well

@mardamek he used porche 911 as a rear engine car, not rear wheel drive. thats why they keep saying weight at the back of the car etc, not because of weight transfer by throttle, but because the big hunk of metal (engine) is in the boot

I feel your pain. In my B5 S4 the accelerator pedal is pretty far to the right hand side of the car, which makes it hard for me to hit the gas without the transmission tunnel/firewall getting in the way.

I always though i was doing it wrong as always used the side of my foot rather than heel and toe, good to see it explained the way i do it. Great tip on floor mounted pedals, had a golf with one of those, found it such a pain.

He didn't simply say the same for all three drivetrains. He just used an odd example of an rwd car by referring to the 911. A classic rwd car will most likely benefit from some throttle application mid-corner since that helps bring the rear end around. Of course, the driver still has to know/feel how much throttle is right, otherwise the car may end up oversteering - aka spinning around.