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Re: Help cadet looking behind and lack of confiden
Posted by 'SimonS' on 08 Dec 2014 @ 10:07

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Perhaps it might be worthwhile getting him to stand on the sidelines and watch what looking behind does.

Virtually every driver slows down and veers when they look behind. It is a natural reaction, your foot pulls back off the accelerator and your hands turn in the direction you are looking.

(Just as they do when you are being overtaken, if you look at the overtaking kart, you move towards it. Often mistaken as an aggressive move or the complaint heard that "X tried to squeeze me off the track")

It you have a datalogger, get him to do several laps without turning his head and a lap where he deliberately tries to look. The 'look' should show up on the data.

As for " I can't believe that I am this far up", that occurs all through life (unless you are really good, when it turns into "I can't believe that I am this far down" when you are only No 2 instead of Pole.)

Also, indoor and outdoor karting are sufficiently different that it might be worth looking to see if habits from one are affecting the other. Instructors in helicopters don't like their pupils to fly fixed wing during their conversion phase because although it is all 'flying', the thinking can be just different enough. (There's a film of a very tired driver at Dunks reaching out for his gear stick at the end of the straight, somewhere over the left sidepod of a 100cc DD kart, as a result of the same type of confusion, so it does happen)

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Help cadet looking behind and lack of confidence by 'deltay' (08 Dec 2014 @ 1:07)

Re: Help cadet looking behind and lack of confiden by 'RobertTED' (08 Dec 2014 @ 6:28)

Re: Help cadet looking behind and lack of confiden by 'deltay' (08 Dec 2014 @ 8:32)

Re: Help cadet looking behind and lack of confiden by 'SmoothAsSilk' (08 Dec 2014 @ 9:17)

Re: Help cadet looking behind and lack of confiden by 'SimonS' << You are here!

Re: Help cadet looking behind and lack of confiden by 'olliewestover' (08 Dec 2014 @ 12:35)

Re: Help cadet looking behind and lack of confiden by 'matt535' (08 Dec 2014 @ 15:06)

Re: Help cadet looking behind and lack of confiden by 'SimonS' (08 Dec 2014 @ 21:06)

Re: Help cadet looking behind and lack of confiden by 'matt535' (09 Dec 2014 @ 8:21)

Re: Help cadet looking behind and lack of confiden by 'Dogman172' (09 Dec 2014 @ 12:17)

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