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When you change up a gear before it is needed, it can be termed as a Short Shift. In other words, before using up the previous gear, you change up to a higher gear. Why and when do you want to do this? This question is really valid because short shift almost always mean to [...]
Gear shifting the rightway: A Visual Aid While shifting from the top of the box to the bottom, form an open cup with your palm, and place over the shift knob with the inside of your fingers and the palm of your hand making contact. Guide the lever quickly with your fingers, but don’t strong [...]
Passing is not allowed in most club racing of the hot lapping or time trailing varieties. Autocrossing doesn’t involve passing at all. However, there are some things to know in a racing that involves passing, or in a situation where passing in a corner is unavoidable or inevitable. Passing can be achieved successfully under three [...]
Cornering the rightway: A visual aid Maximize the potential radius by approaching the corner on the edge of the track. You can see that the turn in point for this corner is about one full car length pass the brake marker in front of the car. At this point, you should almost complete the braking [...]
Road racing comes down to cornering in the end. The driver who is able to sustain the highest speeds through the turns will have the lowest lap times, assuming the cars to be of equal configuration. Braking and accelerating into and out of a typical corner. Note the pedal pressure variation during the course of [...]
Winter driving is considered as one of the toughest task in the field of driving. In case of winter driving, front wheel drive cars, rear wheel drive cars and all wheel drive cars behave differently. Be certain that a driver know how a particular type of car will react to driving situations and respond to [...]
It can be said that braking around a corner is an art in driving. How to brake around a corner is really a talent in driving. When a driver applies the brake, weight is transferred forwards from the back wheels to the front wheels. In a corner the weight is transferred outwards from the inside [...]
It needs a brief introduction in order to start explaining about cadence braking. A driver won’t be able to steer any more, if the drive gets the front wheel locked due to heavy braking. Anti-lock Braking System (ABS) automatically keep the tires on the point of locking so that the driver can continue to steer [...]
Braking distance is an important factor in driving. Reaction times for a racing driver will be around 0.25 seconds but perhaps for an older person whose mind and legs are not as agile is one second. The best braking deceleration is generally considered as 1g. 1g is the retardation due to gravity if you throw [...]
Accelerating from a stand still is an art of engine revs and wheel spin. Accelerate in a professional way is considered as smooth acceleration. The engine will bog down and the driver will not be providing the tires with atleast an optimum torque they can deliver on the road. But if the engines revs are [...]