How Coaching Levelled Up My Driving ⏱️
Over the last few years, I have been spending more time behind the scenes, coaching and developing drivers privately and with various race teams. Although I had been driver coaching for many years prior, starting in 2022, I made a bigger shift to holding the stopwatch.
Before I began coaching more heavily, I often found myself knowing what I wanted to execute on track but not thinking critically about the steps I’d need to take to achieve my desired results, leading to inconsistent on-track performance. However, as a coach, I’m often forced to find not only the areas of growth for drivers but also the possible solutions associated with a given problem.
As the number of drivers I worked with grew, I more frequently noticed that certain issues stemmed from the same causes, and thus, the solution became more consistent and clear to me. As I continued to get back in the kart for my events, old weaknesses of mine became less of an obstacle, as I had seen and talked through the solutions to these problems hundreds of times before.
Suddenly I found myself executing on a higher level cognitively on and off track and the equation for speed became a simple task and my results on track began to stabilize and improve. Now I find that both driving and coaching complement each other as keeping current in the go-kart allows me to easily identify current problems my drivers are facing and coaching allows me to think more critically and consistently while driving.
Talking through some wet driving with Ava Cabral 🌧️
