Become a Racing Driver?

As we sit on our sofas on a Sunday Afternoon it can be easy to idly day dream about our own driving skills as we watch some international grade motorsport on the TV. It doesn't look too difficult does it? Its just pointing the car at a track you have driven a thousand times before and waiting for the vehicle to do all the work. But appearances can be deceptive, there is a lot more to being a racing driver than meets the eye, most people won't appreciate the skills that are required to reach the top levels of motorsport. Driving talent This is a pretty fundamental one as you might imagine. Driving talent is an innate sense of how the car is performing and how you can extract the ultimate from it. Some drivers just seem to be able to 'feel' how much grip a car has and them be able to drive...

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Will NASCAR Ever Stop Pandering

The now familiar sight of empty seats in the cup series has continued into the Chase. But it was truly shocking to see the entire section of turn 3 seating naked for all the world to see. That's in addition to the swaths of empties scattered throughout the stands at Dover recently. There is absolutely no doubt that the non recovering economy is a huge factor in this. And at the same time, neither NASCAR nor its car owners seem to care about its current car destroying double-file re-start system. In a very subtle way, the rich of NASCAR's 'ruling elite' mimic the bankers and congressman who are perpetuating misery on the unwashed masses, the same ones who nowadays cannot afford to take their families to the races near as often as they used to. Yet NASCAR has no problem destroying 1/3 of the...

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