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(Left Page) Emphatically cornering hard onto the front straight. (Above) BMW Power!
Due to COVID-19, this HPDE
event used the lead-follow format
exclusively for the on-track
sessions. As an instructor, this
definitely presents some challenges!
First of all, you still have to control
your own car while going around the
track, and all the usual principles
still apply: looking ahead and thinking ahead, anticipating what's
coming up; driving into the corners

slow(er) so as to exit fast(er);
driving a good line (entering wide,
turning in and touching the inside
apex at the mid-point of the corner,
letting the car "track out" to the outside edge of the track when exiting
the corner). There's a premium on
driving a good line and driving
smoothly, since the student has
been told "follow your instructor and
do what they do, where they do it

(not when they do it)."
Of course, driving the car
around the track is second nature
for an instructor. The challenge is
closely and carefully monitoring
one's students at the same time!
Instructors for D Group had one
student following them during the
track sessions while instructors for
the A, B, and C groups had two
students following them on the

track. Are my students still in a tight
group, with three to four car lengths
separation between cars? Do I need
to slow down? Or speed up? Are
my students driving a good line?
Touching the corner apexes?
Tracking out? Are my students
entering the corner at an appropriate
speed, not too fast, but not too
slow? Taking a corner at speed is
doubly challenging when your eye is

(Below) Practicing recovery from understeer and oversteer on the skidpad.

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