Past Issues

Driver’s Edge principal Rick Schwalenberg gives his perspective on twenty years of the HPDE business. Ross explains that advanced driving techniques are just basics done well and consistently. The next Virtual Track Walk webinar for VIR is announced.

Ross writes about how to best use your feet while driving, practicing your footwork on the street, and what you should wear on your driving feet. Quite the feat….

This entire issue is focused on the “older” or “more mature” driver, addressing both the challenges and advantages such a driver has. Weighing in on the subject are driver coaches Peter Krause, Tom Long, and Michael Zimicki. Ross reviews his five key components in using your age to give you the edge.

Ingrid Steffensen encourages couples (and families) to get involved in motorsport in “Love is a Many-Fendered Thing.” Ross reviews the difference between instructors and coaches and how to best drive “the line.”

Ross reviews the “How to Use Simulators to Improve Your Driving” workshop that he did in Boston with Jeff Ippolito, focusing on the mental game and cornering. Reminder about the upcoming track walk of Sebring webinar.

Superbike racer Michael Pannone tells of his quest for optimal health and urges you to find answers to your own health questions in order to make you a better racer. Ross reviews how to manage both internal and external competition. A new webinar co-hosted by Ross and coach Johan Schwartz called “Drive Sebring Faster” is open for registration.

Speed Secrets Weekly subscriber David DuBois advises drivers to give their wheels a vacation! Ross says find and drive the rhythm of the track. Ross reports on his current research project (Chumpcar racing).

Coach E. Paul Dickinson uses his unique way with words to explain the art of anticipation. Ross says don’t just copy what everyone else on the track does. Announcement for a seminar in Boston called “Using Simulators to Improve Your Driving” and a link to the “Inner Speed Secrets” mobile game complete this issue.

In this issue, Rob Schermerhorn of Delta Vee Motorsports answers a subscriber’s suspension question in “More Spring or More Shock?” Ross reviews how to manage the negatives following a crash, plus a reminder of the Speed Secrets Weekly subscriber discount on Inner Speed Secrets 201 eCourse.

Track Junkies’ Paul Conquest lays out a framework for achieving Zen and a state of flow on track (it’s not meditating through the corners!). Ross challenges you to improve your visual skills, with a further illustration of those skills in a video from contributor Ian Korf (YouSuckatRacing).

James Colborn’s “Be Your Own Coach” concludes (with helpful links). Ross reviews what you cannot control (outcome) and can control (your own learning). Ross also reveals his three focus words for 2016 and asks for your help with one of them.

Club and pro racer James Colborn tells you (in the first of a two-part series) how you can be your own coach. Ross warns of the dangers to you and others of complacency on the track. Ross’s new Inner Speed Secrets 201 eCourse is now available (link provided).