Now, you know that each corner has a workable speed range, and that if you go over that by too much, no matter what to do with the balance of the car, you will go off track. This means you need to confidently know how much the car is able to decelerate, so you're always bringing that speed down in a consistent way. The biggest reason people crash in real life is being afraid of breaking, or just not understanding the lunch to the old grip the car offers. Without proper speed control, nothing else will work consistently.

Unless you're driving on a track where you don't break at all, it is the most important and essential skill we should work on before moving on to more advanced techniques. Even if you're an advanced driver, pay attention to every detail in the next few lessons to make sure that you check all the boxes.

The Two Fundamentals of Driving Fast

Driving fast depends on two things:

• Speed control

• Rotation control

If you're not capable of controlling your speed with precision, controlling your rotation will be 10 times more difficult. This is because we need to bring the speed down to the workable speed range of that corner. And that is why we will make sure we understand fully breaking on a straight line first, starting with the fundamentals, but then very quickly moving on to the more complex situations.

Testing Breaking Capability on a New Track

The first thing you want to do when learning a new track is testing the breaking capability of your car on a straight line. And that does not mean you should break late right away. Test the breaking of the car while breaking early so that you can focus on feeling the speed deceleration. Because if you break late right away, you're gonna get distracted trying to make the corner and you will not learn.

The Importance of Isolation in Learning

And this is super important. In driving, we're doing 20 things at the same time. And if you're trying to improve, you have to do your best to isolate them as much as possible before blending them together. And we can do that by feeling the limit of breaking at a separate stage early in the corner and feeling the limit of rotation deep into the corner and then finally bringing them together into a nice transition.

Listen, what I just said is the essence of motorsports. If you do this perfectly right, you are a pro driver.

Finding Your Breaking Reference

The right process to finding your breaking reference is to over break first, over slowing the car so you can focus 100% on that. And then analyze how much room you have to move your breaking reference deeper and deeper into the breaking zone.

Before we try these things on track, we have to make sure we have a very good breaking technique precision with your foot. And this is definitely not just smashing the breaks as hard as possible. And the next lesson is about that.