This I understand, thanks !
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@tankyx After rereading your original post, Iâm a bit confused because first you wrote this:
But then later you wrote:
What exactly are the on-track symptoms of âjust donât drive enoughâ? Or, alternatively, what are the execution issues your team is experiencing?
As for the Race Walking, I agree that nothing beats seat time (at least well used seat time), but if seat time is not an option, why not race walk? I believe that at itâs essence driving is a game of energy management. Press the throttle, you add kinetic energy to your kart and yourself, press the brakes, and you return some of that energy to the track, turn the wheel and you change the direction the energy is traveling. There are relationships that tie this energy movement together (and energy flows, creates loads, generates traction, and produces forces that act on the kart, etc.). As the driver, you use your experience/subconscious understanding of these relationships to maintain equilibrium.
That said, you are sitting in the kart, so all of the energy and relationships also affect you, and they affect you whether you are in the kart or walking. If you start walking, your body experiences acceleration, if it slows down you experience deceleration. Walk around a corner and your feet/socks/shoes will produce traction, which causes your body to experience centrifugal forces. Throughout all of this, your balance system subconsciously adjust to maintain your equilibrium.
So race walking can help continuously exercise your self and self/kart equilibrium systems.
But wait, thereâs more 
If you think about driving, and learning from your experience behind the wheel, it might look something like this:
So a continuous loop (but not necessarily a sequential process) that continuously expands, modifies, or reaffirms your experience/knowledge. This is seat time.
But what if you can dig deeper into your experience and use it to strengthen and/or expand the applicable breadth/depth of your driving knowledge? That might look something like this:
This is mental training/imagery.
Now, consider what might happen if you could, in real time, feel what you are theorizing. This is race walking⌠you are physically experiencing energy and forces when you walk, but you can also manipulate them⌠change how energy moves and forces develop and dissipate, just like you do when driving a kart. This not only helps connect mind/body/kart, but it can allow you to bring your inert experience to life, and integrate it to a much greater degree than just seat time.
I call this whole idea Infinity Learning because it is virtually endless; you can take whatever experience you have and stretch it as deep and/or as wide as your imagination, theoretical knowledge, and awareness of the corresponding relationships allows⌠and those things can always be expanded.
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I feel like we are not precise enough on all phases of the turn. Braking is approximative, turn in as well. This leads to us losing few .01 per turn. Over the course of a lap this leads to a few tenths lost. You know that fine margin you experience between top and sub top drivers, even in simracing it exists. Then there is the lack of consistency as well.
I really need to sit down and give your theory on training a good read. Because currently my logic is âMonke see throttle, Monke press throttleâ
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Sounds like my approach to sim!
If you do want to try the training method, I could write up an example describing how I race-walk train (thought process and execution) for a turn at my own âtrackâ (aka house), but I donât want to blab on about this stuff just to hear myself type.
Maybe next weekend then, as I signed up for a sprint race on May 11th
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@here
So I decided to run this sunday SWS sprint. It has been a while since I have done a sprint (I think last one was 10 months ago), so I was pretty excited to be part of a race start again, despite being 7kg overweight
QUALIFICATIONS :
As we were running a new configuration of the track I was not familiar with, I decided to let everyone by and just run the session as a practice one. My engine didnât have a lot of top-end unfortunately, but I was able to drag it up to P12, still 0.7s slower than pole. Could have been better, my fastest lap wasnât very clear and I think I left .3 on the table there.
RACE 1 :
We got 2 starts on this one as we got red flagged 1 lap into the race, because we were naughty boys and a lot of bumping was happening. I did lose 3 places in this one, mostly because I was getting harassed early in the race and I couldnât get into the rhythm. The karts are running different softness of tyres, with harder tyres on the rear. That requires you to be extra smooth and clean, but with all the bumping happening, it was just impossible. In the second half of the race I was doing a lot better though, but the damage was done. And also, no top-end on this engine 
RED FLAG, RED FLAG
The actual race
RACE 2 :
So this race we switch karts and I get a much better engine. A shame it wouldnât turn right correctly. I would have a shit ton of understeer in mid to long turns, compromising my exits quite a lot. Despite that, I had a kart that would allow me to fight for top 10, or even top 6. Alas, I got punted into the tecpros once, costing me 5 seconds and 6 spots, and punted the lap after, forcing me to go offtrack and losing 1 or 2 seconds on top of that. But that set up me for a good comeback, which quite a few passes and divebombs. Clearly the most interesting race to watch !
CONCLUSION :
I am fairly happy on how it went, P15 and P13, winner in the 90kg+ class. I was not very fast at first but I was able to lock in and I had a lot of fun in the second race, despite being punted off twice
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