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Originally Posted by BEMR
Did the autocross routine the other day for the 1000 dollar purchase or lease incentive.
Drove the X4 300hp vehicles. fun for the most part but the instructor was irritating to say the least, I'm not a professional driver and don't pretend to be, but to hear the instructor say break break break break break go go go go go go go break break break go go go the whole time it's got to be the most irritating thing I have ever had a passenger in a car do.
By about your 4th run in after about an hour we did a timed event seems if you could break 40 seconds you did pretty good, but the instructor had me looking so far ahead at the same time telling me to break break accelerate accelerate gogogo I wanted to kick him out of the car. I wanted to say dude could we do 1 lap with you not saying a thing I guarantee you I can bring this car around this autocross under 40 seconds but I couldn't and just assumed this was for fun.
I'm sure these instructors are good, but between about six or seven instructors and about 45 minutes of talking not one of them mentioned the proper nine and three hand position on the wheel kind of surprised me.
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Did you ask him not to talk to you for a few laps?
They are doing it to help you....
And you DO need to look ahead.... once you get to the corner there is no reason to keep looking at the corner and most likely you will go off if you do.... your steering and braking should be already set before you enter the corner and if any of the 2 is not correct once you get there, there is not much you can do either, you should have planned ahead
I suppose they don't mention 9-3 much to not overwhelm you more than you already are with the braking points etc... It is much more important if you brake where you should and look ahead than if your hands are 9-3 or 10-2
Most important tips are:
- get reference points
- look ahead
- break in a straight line
- be smooth with steering