boizart1

So I just learned to double clutch off youtube and it made my driving THAT much better. I also learned not to clutch with my toes and it made my driving THAT much better. So any other tips out there? Or maybe you can point me in the right direction where to look.

StuttgartRX8

Way to go Brian Earl Spilner you are learning!!!!

cjkim

but seriously... #1 tip of all time
stop watching the fast and the furious

KAtC10

Learn & practice heel-toe downshifting.

Zelse

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Press the gas. I heard that makes your car drive faster - as the thread title implies.

Silver06

Be smooooth. Smooth inputs with the steering, brakes, and gas loads the suspension progressively.

Get someone to give you an advanced driving course for Christmas.

416to212

Why do you think Double Clutching our cars will make you a faster driver? I completely don't think you need to do this with our cars, sychros is fast and accurate as long as you modulate the gas properly.

If you want to learn to drive faster, you have to start taking it to the track and to autocrosses.

chiketkd

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+1 Learn car control, then focus on getting faster.

Socket7

Fill a cup to the brim with water. then drive around a track without spilling a drop. Repeat daily for several years.

Drive smooth, pick the right line.

ShinkaTeen

>.>


he did it. so should you.

mwood

I think this will be an interesting thread to just observe...

Ross_Dawg

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So you're telling us driving is THAT much better because you know how to drive now?

ahh youtube... best driver instructor class anywhere

mulkio

Go ride with someone who knows how to drive at limits, and observe............

chiketkd

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+1 The thread title says it all!

hogcar

Keep your foot planted on the the pedal to the right . Think controlled Chinese Fire Drill.

justjim

Are you talking about driving on the street or driving on the track? Slightly different things as some things really only apply to the track. However, car control learned on the track can be applied to the street. Go to a HPDE and take some instruction riding with an instructor and you will gain a whole appreciation of car control. Also if you get your jollies out on the track you will be less likely to try and get them inappropriately on the street.

Back to your original comment about double clutching, perhaps more important than double clutching is learning to rev match the engine and transmission which is really what you are attempting with the double clutching, but if you rev match well the synchros will have no difficulty selecting the next gear without double clutching.

Buy a book like "Driving to Win" by Carroll Smith or any of a number of other good racing and high performance driving books. There is a lot of background to be learned the old fashioned way.

Jedi54

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street racing?

Zelse

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Anyone noticed he hasn't responded? Probably just some dumb troll...

zoom44

street racing posts removed. dont post any more

EricMeyer

Everyone should own this book: "Going Faster, Mastering the Art of Race Car Driving" by Skip Barber. Read it twice and then read it again. Excellent reference manual and you will better understand how to go faster (as your thread title suggests).

Also, when you beleive you're driving faster, find a local racer at the track and ask him/her to drive with you. There is ALWAYS something new to learn.

boizart1

thanx for the positive comments. And no I'm not a dumb troll just dont come on the website as often as you might. I think you guys misunderstood, i should have said "better" driver. I've been looking for one of those courses in Miami but haven't found one. And for you idiots that tried to insult me and be smartasses, come to Miami and I'll take your rx8 out on the road with my R1 when you're ready for some real speed.

Zelse

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LOL didn't he just say no street racing crap? So he threatens us with a challenge. -_-;; Awesome. Please dude..Anyone can go straight and fast with lots of money. And anyone can **** up and plow into the mall...Like in the Blues Brothers!

kersh4w

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i think we all know the story of the street biker who plowed head first into the back of a semi's trailer.

Easy_E1

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HPDE FTW! Nothing like being on the track with an instructor to show you what your doing WRONG!

longpath

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Smooth works for a lot of things, and driving a car is definitely one of them. I noticed this and pointed this out over on my other "online home":


"Slow is smooth. Smooth is fast."

This is excellent advice whether behind the wheel or behind the trigger. I was given the same advice by Dick Turner, founder of the National Academy for Professional Driving, Inc. (NAPD).
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