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Originally Posted by MaxL
I had an amazing weekend at Circuit Mont Tremblant with BMW Quebec. I "got" the track right away, and after a session of riding in my instructor's car, I got our on the track and drove like never before. I passed 12-15 cars out of 26 in my run group, many faster and on better tires, which was something I did not expect for the first time at this track and my rather limited experience (just moved to the yellow or B group this year).
Anyway, my instructor and I both were surprised my that. Next day my first session was also good, although I was not pushing hard, but I was still faster than half of the cars. Then I went solo - same thing, doing great having fun, full throttle almost at every apex and good consistency.
But then last two afternoon sessions I hit a wall (not literally, thank god). First session, driving seemed the same, but it was SLOW. I was doing everything the same way i did before, but my laps were at least 5 seconds slower, consistently, and getting progressively worse by the end of the session. The next session, last of the day, I tried to take it easy and was much more gentle with controls, but the car was still sliding around and was not fast. I tried to be more aggressive - not helping, more smooth and gentle - not helping. It was like there was nothing I could do to get back the pace. The strange thing is that I was still mostly consistent, besides my intentional changes of driving style, and my line was still good. But I was really slow.
My instructor first thought that my tires were going away, then told me it was fatigue, but I did not feel tired and I was still driving the same line rather consistently.
Did anyone have something like that happen? I can stop beating myself up because of it. I mean, driving is not even that important for me, but I cannot stop thinking WTF happened there. The worst part is that I'll probably will not have a change to get back on a track till April :-( to convince myself it's not a permanent condition.
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I think you're living in your head too much, try being the only girl out there with everyone passing you including a mini cooper, which was my experience the first time out. All I care about is technique, maybe you shouldn't concentrate so much on all those cars you are passing and instead see how clean your driving is. Now when I go back in the spring I will just assume last in line and focus instead on how I am improving on my turns, I really don't care where I am, just that I'm out there having fun. RELAX