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While I feel that a driver should start with a solid education in the physics of racing as it can often lead to immediate improvements, proper training is where true, world-class skill develops.  The kind of raw driving skill and talent needed to fly in to test with a pro team, climb into an unfamiliar car, and quickly start laying down competitive laps with seemingly little effort. This is because education can teach you to understand why a talented driver’s laps are fast, but knowledge alone won’t allow you to peer inside that driver's mind to see what it actually "feels" like to be able to produce those incredible laps.  

That "feeling" cannot be taught directly, and while a lucky few seem to possess it naturally, for most it has to be gained through proper training.  After finishing up the Science of Speed books, most of my time has been spent helping drivers train this ability.  I like to call it “Learning what fast feels like.”  The results of this is that I now have a complete curriculum of exercises and lessons designed to take a driver as far as they have the willingness to push themselves.
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  • LESSON 0 - SETTING YOUR BASELINE - Start your training program with a solid foundation.  We will select your training ground track and first training cars as well as set a starting lap time on which to build.  
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  • LESSON 1A - UNDERSTEER -  Learn the fundamentals of driving at the understeer limit. We'll look at how car control cues and driver inputs go hand in hand to keep your tires at the peak of grip.  ​​Plus, learn to get the most out of your training and set your ideal training schedule.
  • LESSON 1B - OVERSTEER - Now we will progress to the more difficult challenge of driving at the peak of your rear tires. You will train the new car control cues and driver inputs needed to drive at the limit of oversteer. 
  • LESSON 1C - CORNER EXIT (UNDERSTEER LIMIT) - In this lesson, you will improve upon your baseline time by training one of the core skills needed to drive a perfect corner.  Learn to spot your mistakes and find your own ideal apex.
  • LESSON 1D - THE UNIVERSAL CUE - In this unique training exercise we will use a special car to begin our training of the Universal Cue. The driving cue that directly represents the physics of racing and provides the final layer of car control precision.
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  • LESSON 2A - VISUALIZE THE VEHICLE  - To begin level 2, we will explore the first of three key visualization techniques we discovered to have a profound influence on a driver's skill ceiling.  Being able to properly visualize how we interact with the car itself.
  • LESSON 2B - DOUBLE APEX - In this lesson,  we'll train our ability to optimize one of the unique corner types, the double apex.  We'll  introduce a new training variation to do this that helps a driver develop their visual sense of speed.
  • LESSON 2C - CHICANE - We'll now look at the other primary corner variation, the chicane,  and train our ability to optimally shift weight from one side of the car to the other.
  • LESSON 2D - CORNER EXIT (OVERSTEER LIMIT) - We'll finish level 2 by going back to our test bed track with the new challenge of learning how to extract the maximum corner exit potential from higher-power cars.