Category: Racing is life
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#118 Racing is life – Season 2 Episode 2 – The road map – My next steps in Motorsport
Where do I come from? Where do I want to go? This blog post is intended to answer some questions about my future in motorsport. Today, my racing experience isn’t that big. Yes, I have spent some hours in karts, formula student cars and normal street cars, that is correct.…
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#108 Racing is life – Season 2 Episode 1 – Season recap
“Racing is life, everything else is just waiting” Steve McQueen It seems like a very strange thing to do. A season recap? Why are you doing a season recap? Which season do you even mean? I thought you are not participating in real racing? Well, yes and no. In 2019…
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#92 Trip to the Nürburgring – VLN 7
Yesterday, I visited the VLN race 7. The VLN is the so called “Langstrecken Meisterschaft” on the Nürburgring & Nordschleife. The goal is of course to be the fastest in the end. That is the reason for doing motorsport. But here at the ring, you can literally feel that motorsport…
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#47 Racing is life – Season 1 Episode 8 – My addiction – Three weeks of no racing
Having spent the last couple of weeks full time on formula student there was no time left for practicing on my racing simulator. Additionally, our car was not finished in time, therefore, I couldn’t even drive our race car. Coming back home with a swollen foot and a cold I…
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#41 Racing is life – Season 1 Episode 7 – Team
“TEAM“ What do you think of when hearing the word team? Is there a navy seal commando storming a building, two climberes helping each other at the edge of a cliff, or a group of football players finding their way through the opponents defense. No matter which exact situation you…
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#32 Racing is life – Season 1 Episode 5 – How to win the mental game
What does it take to actually race a car? In theory, racing is pretty easy. “You just sit there, holding on to the steering wheel and turning it from time to time. Occasionally you also need to break in-between constantly pushing the accelerator pedal to the floor. How hard could…
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#28 Racing is life – Season 1 Episode 4 – Perfect training
Practice does not make perfect. Only perfect practice makes perfect. Vince Lombardi You are practicing every day? Good for you, but is it effective? Does it really help you to improve? Or are you plateauing on a certain level for weeks, months or even years? If you want to improve,…
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#19 Racing is life – Season 1 Episode 3 – Simulator practice
Simulator practice, everybody has heard about it. There are the professionals, training with fancy eight digit something worth of machinery, while others sit in front of small screens in a windowless and untidy cellar room. Thanks to modern technologies, the software for racing simulation has been improved a thousand times,…
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#12 Racing is life – Season 1 Episode 2 – Lift and coast
“kkrrrkkkrr lift and coast kkkrrrrkkrr lift and coast krrkkrrr!” “krrr Copy kkkrrrkkkrrk!” In today’s episode, we will talk about “lift and coast“. “Lift and coast, what does that even mean?” Lift and coast is a fuel saving strategy. Instead of holding on to the accelerater as long as possible until…
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#6 Racing is life – Season 1 Episode 1 – The background story
Growing up in an upper middle class family in Germany, cars were of course a part of my daily life, but not really in the way it is today. Being proud of the german engineering reputation, my dad used to drive german cars only. Back in the days when I…
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