I want to start this module with a story. I was driving the Formula 3 in iRacing, I was already 7000i rating, and in one of these races I was winning everything, one of the drivers sent a message and said "How are you so fast, you're missing all the apexes?" And I never forgot that, because my answer was "Well I'm just spending more time on the limit, I'm just maximizing lateral load and somehow carrying more speed and finishing the lap in less time, even though I was missing apex", and back then I didn't pay too much attention to it, but nowadays I understand what I was doing different, why am I missing apexes? And I'm still faster than drivers who are not missing apexes.

Understanding Lateral Load and the True Limit

And the answer is, lateral load, I was focusing so much on maximizing the lateral grip, maximizing rotation that even when I was missing apexes, I was still being able to maximize the energy that the tyres were capable of offering, and this module is about that. Because it's slower to hit the apex being under the limit compared to missing the apex by a tiny bit and being on the limit of the car and maximizing the grip on the four tyres.

What "Being on the Limit" Really Means

I want to insist one thing here, being on the limit, when I say being on the limit, it's on the limit of the four tyres, understeering, not on the limit, only oversteering too much and over correcting, not on the right limit. You went over and you're not maximizing the front, you're kind of using the front to correct, let's not call this on the good limit.

The good limit is when the car is about to break traction, you're just maintaining that, it's a fine line between too much understeer and too much oversteer. Of course, we're going to call this neutral steer, we're going to have a lesson only about that. The good limit is being able to squeeze forces from the front tyres and from the rear tyres at the same time.

Finding Optimal Lines Through the Good Limit

Only when you find the limit, the good limit of the four tyres, you'll start understanding what lines the car is capable of doing and what optimal lines you should be taking in each corner. Your goal for this module is to still point forward while reaching this limit.

Of course, you're going to go over a little bit, you're going to have to make corrections. Micro corrections should be a regular thing, if you're on the good limit, you're consistently doing micro corrections.

Module Objectives: Rotation and Lateral Load Management

To stay there, this module is going to be about inducing and managing rotation and consequently lateral load. The objective of this module is for you to be able to do two things, induce understeer and induce oversteer.

If you can do those two things in the right way, both in clear amounts but also in short, subtle, tiny amounts, you are a professional race driver.

The Four Essential Skills for Car Handling

If you have read my book, you know that we have four essential skills for car handling:

• Feeling understeer

• Feeling oversteer

• Inducing understeer

• Inducing oversteer

If you can do those four things, that already involves pretty much all the techniques that we are going to talk about in this course, all the techniques that you're going to use in motorsports have the intention of you controlling the balance of the car through these four pillars.

Applying This Module: Building Muscular Sensitivity

It's time to apply this module, it's going to be a lot more difficult than the braking and the cornering module because this module requires a lot of muscular sensitivity. It requires that you develop a new muscular memory and that takes time. So take your time to digest these lessons and try them out on track as much as possible until you can be 100% sure that you can do them.