Category: Racing is life
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#272 Racing is life – driving techniques – S3 E13 – Overtaking in a race
Sure, everybody knows how racing really looks like, right? A bunch of drivers sitting in their cars, driving in circles all day long and everyone tries to be the best. Well, without the skills to actually overtake someone, you may just end up on the very same position you have…
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#266 Racing is life – driving techniques – S3 E12 – Overtaking on track days
As we have started the topic around overtaking last time by focusing on the overtaking maneuver on public roads, today, we will finally be back in the world of racing. Today is the day, you got your car ready, drove to the track and are looking forward to an awesome…
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#251 Racing is life – driving techniques – S3 E11 – Overtaking on public roads
Once we can finally handle our car, of course we want to go racing. Well, depending on the type of racing series you chose, there will be other cars on the track with you. Therefore, you need to know how to handle that new situation. But let’s just start very…
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#237 Racing is life – driving techniques – S3 E10 – Cornering
To be fast around a track you need to be able to take the corners perfectly. Stepping on the accelerator pedal on the straight, that’s something everyone can do. But carrying the speed around the corners, that’s a skill people need to actually acquire. For sure, sometimes people instinctively do…
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#230 Racing is life – driving techniques – S3 E9 – Understanding the car behavior
As this season goes on and on, we actually build up a lot of knowledge about different car components and how they work together as a team. Todays topic will not add something new to the portfolio, but instead tries to combine all the different things we have learned so…
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#227 Racing is life – driving techniques – S3 E8 – The perfect line
What is the fastest way between point A and point B? Right! It is a straight line. What the straight line is for an airplane, is the perfect line for a racecar. The perfect line describes the line, on which you should drive around a track.Why is that necessary to…
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#211 Racing is life – driving techniques – S3 E7 – Shifting
BBBBBAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMM, (mechanical noise), BBBBBBBBBAAAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, (mechanical noise), BBBBAAAAAMMMMMMMMMMMMM As you can hear, today is all about shifting. Wait a second? Shifting? You don’t need to tell me something about that! I have an automatic car! Well, in case you have, you can still decide about the fact, when your transmission needs…
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#204 Racing is life – driving techniques – S3 E6 – Steering
Hello and welcome to episode six of the Racing is life – driving techniques – series, here on the dreamactsucceed.blog. My name is Andi and I am your driving instructor for today. Oh god, that was horrible! But anyways, today, we will talk about steering. Rule 1: Two hands at…
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#196 Racing is life – driving techniques – S3 E5 – Accelerating
As we have talked already about the tires, the braking and the suspension, todays topic will add another very important skill to our list. Accelerating What is so difficult about that? You put the pedal to the metal, right? Give everything there is, as often and as long as possible!…
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#187 Racing is life – driving techniques – S3 E4 – Braking
“Wer bremst verliert!”, which means as much as “the one who brakes, loses”, is a very popular saying in Germany. But what is the story behind that? Today, it’s all about braking. What does that saying really mean? Sure, if you brake later, you are “longer fast“, does that make…
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