....is I tend to do a lot of thinking. I seem to sort out the crap in my life the best when I'm torturing myself under the guise of being healthy. I've been bummin' about my cars failure at Drift Indy round 4. I was going through the runs in my mind when I realized I failed, not the car. My car is more than capable, there isn't one system on it that hasn't been modified. I, however, am not as capable. I'm not so much over-driving the car, but far exceeding my skill level. I guess I'm trying to say that the car is capable of doing what I want to do, but I'm not up to the task as a driver.
When I first got the car, the best process would've been to just get it up and running and go drift it. Then begin to upgrade the car, growing as a driver as it's capabilities did. Learning to become a better driver. However, I way over-built the car and started with something that FAR exceeded my skills.
At the event, I saw all these drivers just haulin' ass into the 1st turn and thought "Okay, I guess that's how it's done." Dumbass. There was the failure that led to my broken axle. Instead of just doing my own thing starting out easy on an unfamiliar course, I did what they were doing(well, tried to...). The course had a HUGE lead-in(bigger than anything I've ever attempted) and I was thrown off by the way the course felt really narrow. I remember trying to change up my approach and how I went thought the first turn, but I was just being too aggressive. I should've slowed down and started from square one.
Bottom line is I was just driving too fast for my skill. I need track time to become a better driver and breaking my car robs me of it. Hopefully I will remember this next time before it's too late and my stupidity breaks another part, ending my day early.
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