Finally some time over! Last 6 months have been busy, both with real racing and school. I have been working as race engineer and driver coach in a Formula Renault team and in a team runing in the Swedish touring car championship. At univeristy I have completed my Bachelor of science in Mechanical engineering and started my Masters studies in International project management.

I started with iRacing a 14 months ago and have made a number of videoguides for rookies, so now when winter is approaching I can finally start planning next video. I got a few requests during last 6 months for a basic driver training video. Now ive read Speed secrets series by Ross Bentley a long time ago when I was still an active driver myself.  I have also watched Skip Barbers movie Going Faster but now I have read and watched these again after all these years and found alot of things that I need to work on myself, so maybe its not that basic afterall. =)

Step 1: Was making a plan on what content should be included.This was actually quite hard and as you can see its not quite finished. Ive made som comments here and there aswell. The problem I faced was that I dont know how to make animations which would be very nice to have to explain certain things. Another problem is also the chapter dividing. Should I make one part and release it or just make it into one long movie?

Step 2: Getting some nice iRacing footage, this ive already started and I try and take a few replays here and there when im racing myself. so dont be surprised if your in the video if you have raced me the last couple of days. ;)

If you havent seen any of the other guides have a look at http://members.iracing.com/iforum/thread.jspa?threadID=13174&tstart=0

The bad things in those is the quality of video and sond, however I have upgraded my computer since last video so now I run everything on max which should help alot.

Ok back to studying financial management and a cup of coffee. Hopefully I can start putting a few things toghether this weekend so I have somewhere to start from.

Have nice day

Yours Rob

Basic training video plan

Basic Driving

1.       Controls 

-          Tires (Traction vs Load)

-          Steering  (Animation: 9 and 3 o´klock positions on steering wheel and smooth inputs)

-          Brake  (Graph showing optimal braking together with pedal input animation) (importance of straight line braking)

-          Throttle (Smooth squeezing motion pedal animation)(Don’t let off, one smooth motion)

2.       Shifting

-          Short shifting

-          Downshifting (Graph showing when and where)

-          Blip

3.       Trail braking

-          Tires (Traction vs load again)

-          Entry graph (When and where to brake)

4.       Cornering technique

-          Graphs and animations showing correct lines

-          Turn in, apex, exit

5.       Passing

-          Correct passing

6.       Comfort zone

7.       Visualization

8.       Consistency

9.       100%

10.   Practicing

11.   Qualifying

12.   Race