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You Go Where You Look
Originally Published by Auto Racer's Monthly, December 1993
...SO LOOK WHERE YOU WANT TO GO. "I want to go up the track," comments a champion race driver, "so that's where I look. As far ahead as I can. Look here and there to the sides, and I'll be wavering minutely, but needlessly."
Take drivers who look right in front of themselves, driving off the nose of their car. They're always slow. Slow because they drive where they look, and they're only looking directly in front of them.
And then you get other racers who, while they look a bit further, are really focusing intently on what's right up ahead, usually the rear of anther car. These are the men or women who all too frequently find they've run in to the back of the other car, or couldn't avoid the accident right in front of them. They were driving where they looked and they were simply looking dead ahead.
Look far to the left or right, then check the line you're driving. It's almost certain you've wandered slightly one way or the other. Try it. "Unless you're concentrating on not doing it," says our driver, "it'll happen. It's like a natural instinct, I guess, to go where you're looking."
Logical. Our eyes look at Point A; they tell our brain that Point A is getting our intent attention; our brain concludes that Point A is now our objective, and tells our reflexes what to do to get to Point A.
So, put this to your advantage by realizing up front that you'll go where you look. So then, look where you want to go. Far up the track; toward the precise apex point; at an opening for a pass. Whatever.
Don't let your eyes wander where they seem to want. Instead, force them to be your guide, and make your eyes "open a path" for you. They're another driving tool, so don't take them for granted. Perfect vision, alone, isn't everything. There's more to eyes than meet the eye.
© 2007 Triad Z Club
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