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Old 03-25-2018, 10:07 PM   #10
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Here is the video.

I came into the corner behind on everything: behind on braking so I'm carrying too much speed; behind on downshifting so I'm kind of trying to do that and brake at the same time; and behind on steering so I'm chasing the slide instead of catching it. Once I got that far out of phase or sequence, its impossible to catch up, and the best I can do is to try to recover - and in this instance I wasn't able to do that.

I had 4 hours on the drive back to LA to beat myself up about making this mistake but all I can do is learn from it and continue to work on becoming a better driver/racer. And yes, racing does imitate life.

Nothing worse than have nothing but time to critique & brow beat yourself.

Brush it off, get back on the horse and continue to be
Inspiration for all the 986forum folks.

M

P.S try not to tuck your thumbs in the steering wheel.
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